With an eye fixed at the polls, the Maharashtra govt pronounces a number of steps for the ones coated underneath Mumbai’s slum redevelopment tasks. However stalled tasks and an alleged pro-builder bias are undoing any just right intent
REDOING SHANTYTOWN: A swathe of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, with tenement highrises for citizens in its midst. (Picture: Milind Shelte)
Mumbai,ISSUE DATE: Oct 9, 2023 | UPDATED: Sep 29, 2023 19:15 IST
With the Lok Sabha and state meeting polls in 2024 drawing close to, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP)-Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) govt in Maharashtra goes all-out to woo the tough slum-dweller vote financial institution in Mumbai. The state govt has determined to allot flats in slum redevelopment schemes at Rs 2.5 lakh to citizens of shanties that experience arise between 2000 and 2011. It’s estimated that this may increasingly quilt round 1.6-1.8 million other people as their slums are redeveloped within the coming years. Slum-dwellers whose homes had been built sooner than 2000 are legally secure and eligible free of charge housing. Many are housed in 300 sq. ft apartments underneath Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) tasks.