Devendra Fadnavis, chief minister of Maharashtra, delegated power to state housing society, Mhada that they can acquire dilapidated cessed property if owner of such building cannot redevelop it. Amendments regarding this will be made in Mhada Act with regard to right to acquire such properties.
In the island city, there are nearly 14,227 old and dilapidated cessed buildings and key suggestion was given by an eight-member panel of MLAs from all parties to point out challenges in public housing and suggest policy changes.
Fadnavis in legislative assembly replied a debate and stated, “The panel has taken into consideration many challenges and shortcomings and submitted a comprehensive report. And they have decided to empower Mhada to acquire old and dilapidated cessed buildings which are not developed by owners.”
Sources stated that Mhada Act has already shown interest to acquire such buildings and some buildings were also taken over by Mhada but one point shall also be taken into consideration such move will be opposed by tenants, it was stated by housing expert Chandrashekhar Prabhu. He further added, if the government intention is to redevelop such properties by way of self-redevelopment then it will not be criticized.
It was also stated by CM Fadnavis that government will direct developers which are in activity of rehabilition projects to give three years of rent payable to slum-dwellers as advance. Fadnavis added that there are many cases where developers stopped paying rents to slum-dwellers after they get the project. Hence, advance rent will be collected in an escrow account. In case a developer fails to pay, then it will act as a safety net. He also directed MMRDA, MHADA and SRA to initially adopt the online permission model that BMC has to give building permissions within a month.
Courtesy/By: Renu Kathale
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01 Jul 2019
