Slum Redevelopment- Brief Overview
4 years, 9 months ago

Slum Redevelopment- Brief Overview

Live Law  

As per a 2011 study, 62% of Mumbai's population lives in slums. Under the Slum Act, the 'Slum Rehabilitation Authority' was formed in the year 1995 which comprised of a Chairperson being the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra and a Chief Executive Officer of the Authority being a super time scale IAS Officer along with other members being Ministers, elected members of the State Legislature, Secretaries of the concerned State Government Departments and some non-official members who are experts in the field of building construction, planning, architecture, social services, etc. • Lease of rehab and free sale lands is granted in favor of the society of slum dwellers and the society of flat purchasers/developer, respectively. Vesting of Land As per Section 15A of the Slum Act, within 30 days of completion of the Rehab Component, the CEO shall declare, by notification in the Official Gazette, that the land vests in the SRA, whether the land belongs to the State Government, BMC, Municipal Council or the MHADA, provided that the SRA obtains a no objection certificate from such land-owning authority. Thereafter, the SRA shall lease the Rehab Land and the Free Sale Land in favor of the society of slum dwellers and the society of flat purchasers, respectively, for a period of 30 years, renewable for a further period of 30 years.

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Slum rehabilitation project in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar: ‘We are finally homeowners’
5 days, 14 hours ago

Slum rehabilitation project in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar: ‘We are finally homeowners’

Hindustan Times  

For around 1,400 families living in the slum clusters of northwest Delhi’s Jailorwala Bagh, Friday marked a transformative moment. They were handed the keys to new flats under the Swabhiman Apartments in-situ slum rehabilitation project in Ashok Vihar – ending decades of living in makeshift shelters with little hope of proper housing. This project is the second successful in-situ rehabilitation …

Pan-India developers chase Mumbai’s redevelopment, SRA opportunities
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Pan-India developers chase Mumbai’s redevelopment, SRA opportunities

Live Mint  

Developers from across India are seizing opportunities to redevelop Mumbai’s old, dilapidated buildings, housing societies and slums to expand their footprint in the land-starved financial capital. "With limited opportunities of greenfield land parcels in Mumbai, a massive opportunity exists in the redevelopment and SRA space," said Tariq Ahmed, CEO, West India at Prestige Group. “Mumbai is a redevelopment market," said …

Changes in Delhi slum redevelopment scheme, developers, residents to benefit
1 month, 1 week ago

Changes in Delhi slum redevelopment scheme, developers, residents to benefit

India Today  

The Delhi Development Authority has taken a significant step towards enhancing the viability of 'original rehabilitation' projects, aimed at providing essential housing solutions for slum dwellers, an official statement said on Thursday. Governor, under the "Jahan Jhuggi Wahin Makaan" scheme, primarily focus on making these projects more attractive for developers, ensuring seamless integration of slum dwellers into the city’s formal …

DDA approves major overhaul in slum redevelopment policy
1 month, 1 week ago

DDA approves major overhaul in slum redevelopment policy

The Hindu  

The Delhi Development Authority on Thursday approved a slew of major changes in its policy for the redevelopment of slums under its ‘Jahan Jhuggi, Wahin Makan’ scheme, giving a boost to the in-situ rehabilitation of their residents. The move came a day after Mr. Saxena ordered the DDA to dispose of within a month pending applications for the registration of …

Maharashtra could earn ₹5,000-10,000 crore from Dharavi rejig
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra could earn ₹5,000-10,000 crore from Dharavi rejig

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The state government could earn between ₹5,000 crore and ₹10,000 crore from rents and sale of houses to Dharavi residents who are found ineligible for free housing within the slum cluster, highly placed sources told HT. According to the project plan drawn up by DRPPL, families whose tenements were constructed prior to January 1, 2000, and those living on …

Devipada SRA project revived, residents to receive advance rent
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Devipada SRA project revived, residents to receive advance rent

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Over 1,000 slum dwellers in Borivali East’s Devipada received a shot in the arm with the revival of their almost two-decade-old slum redevelopment project. Devipada SRA project revived, residents to receive advance rent The entire Devipada slum area is divided into three clusters, with a cumulative area of 1,03,153.46 sq m. In 2005, Ashapura Infrastructure, also known as Ashapura …

Cabinet nod for govt agencies finishing stalled SRA projects
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Cabinet nod for govt agencies finishing stalled SRA projects

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Stalled projects of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority can now be taken up and completed by government bodies like the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, City Industrial Development Corporation, Maha Housing, Shivshahi Punarvasan Prakalp and MahaPreit and Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation. HT Image A proposal to this effect was cleared by …

Slum Rehabilitation Scheme Not To Be Seen As Real Estate Development Project, It's Linked To Right To Life: Supreme Court
5 months, 1 week ago

Slum Rehabilitation Scheme Not To Be Seen As Real Estate Development Project, It's Linked To Right To Life: Supreme Court

Live Law  

A Supreme Court bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Aravind Kumar has held slum rehabilitation scheme cannot be viewed as a real estate development project because “there is a public purpose involved, and that is inextricably connected to the right to life of some of our brothers and sister citizens who are living in pathetic conditions”. The Supreme Court has …

No land transfer to Adani group in Dharavi slum redevelopment project: Report
6 months, 3 weeks ago

No land transfer to Adani group in Dharavi slum redevelopment project: Report

Hindustan Times  

The world's largest slum redevelopment project involves no land transfer to Special Purpose Vehicle created for the project or to the Adani group. Sources close to the project told ANI that land transfer will be done to Dharavi Redevelopment Project/slum rehabilitation authority which is part of Maharashtra government housing department. The ₹23,000 crore slum redevelopment project comes under controversy after …

Slum dwellers facing eviction wary of opting for rental compensation
1 year ago

Slum dwellers facing eviction wary of opting for rental compensation

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Over a hundred families in Jogeshwari east whose slum tenements are slated to be razed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation have been offered compensatory rent of ₹15,000 for 18 months by the civic body, as opposed to the usual practice of providing alternate accommodation. We don’t want the empty promise of rent, which can tomorrow turn out to be …

Civic bodies, planning authorities can now take over pending SRA projects
1 year, 3 months ago

Civic bodies, planning authorities can now take over pending SRA projects

Hindustan Times  

In a significant move, the Maharashtra government has decided to allow civic bodies and planning authorities to take over slum rehabilitation projects that have been pending for years in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. HT Image The government’s decision will allow all civic bodies, such as the BMC and Thane Municipal Corporation, and planning authorities such as MMRDA, Mhada and CIDCO …

Navi Mumbai slums to be developed under SRA scheme
1 year, 4 months ago

Navi Mumbai slums to be developed under SRA scheme

Hindustan Times  

NAVI MUMBAI Navi Mumbai slums to be developed under SRA scheme Industries minister Uday Samant has given in principle approval for rehabilitation of slums in Navi Mumbai under the SRA scheme. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Mantralaya on Thursday, which was attended by MIDC, CIDCO and NMMC officials apart from top Shiv Sena leaders of Navi …

Navi Mumbai slums to be developed under SRA scheme
1 year, 4 months ago

Navi Mumbai slums to be developed under SRA scheme

Hindustan Times  

NAVI MUMBAI: As many as 38,000 homes across slum areas of Digha, Nerul and Shivaji Nagar in Navi Mumbai will be rehabilitated under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority scheme. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Mantralaya on Thursday, which was attended by MIDC, CIDCO and NMMC officials apart from top Shiv Sena leaders from Navi Mumbai. According to …

Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC
1 year, 4 months ago

Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Reiterating that the promise of free housing to encroachers—slum dwellers—is fundamentally flawed, the Bombay high court on Thursday asserted that it must be ensured that the government policy of rehabilitating them “is not abused and there is no wholesale profiteering at public expense”. HT Image The division bench of justice Gautam Patel and justice Neela Gokhale made the observations …

Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC
1 year, 4 months ago

Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Reiterating that the promise of free housing to encroachers—slum dwellers—is fundamentally flawed, the Bombay high court on Thursday asserted that it must be ensured that the government policy of rehabilitating them “is not abused and there is no wholesale profiteering at public expense”. HT Image {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The division bench of justice Gautam Patel and justice Neela …

SRA proposes free of cost homes to upper-floor residents
2 years ago

SRA proposes free of cost homes to upper-floor residents

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Residents of the many multi-storeyed slums and chawls dotting the city and suburbs have reason to rejoice as the Slum Rehabilitation Authority has proposed to the state government homes free of cost in slum rehabilitation projects to those living on upper floors of such structures. SRA had proposed free of cost homes for residents on the upper floors of …

Bombay High Court Refuses To Quash Acquisition Of Woman's Property For Slum Rehabilitation
2 years ago

Bombay High Court Refuses To Quash Acquisition Of Woman's Property For Slum Rehabilitation

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court recently refused to set aside acquisition of a 5115.2 m 2 property in Borivali for slum rehabilitation observing that the owner showed no bonafide intention to redevelop the area on her own and the acquisition cannot be set aside disregarding her conduct. "…we find that public interest demands that the slum rehabilitation scheme should not be …

As Adani Group clinches project to redevelop Dharavi, dreams and doubts abound in Asia’s largest slum
2 years ago

As Adani Group clinches project to redevelop Dharavi, dreams and doubts abound in Asia’s largest slum

The Hindu  

Every morning, Asha, a 27-year-old schoolteacher, wakes up at the crack of dawn to help her disabled mother get ahead of the long queues outside the community toilets in central Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, where around 11 lakh urban poor live cheek by jowl in over 1.2 lakh cramped, tin-roofed shanties in a maze of crowded, winding alleys spread …

What is the Dharavi redevelopment project?
2 years, 2 months ago

What is the Dharavi redevelopment project?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On October 18, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Maharashtra’s deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis signed a ‘definitive agreement’ for handing over 47.5 acres of Railway land in Dadar for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. The agreement, which was inked between the Ministry of Railways’ Rail Land Development Authority and the Dharavi Redevelopment Project Authority, sets the …

SRA await state government approval for new development policy
2 years, 9 months ago

SRA await state government approval for new development policy

Hindustan Times  

PUNE The Pune Slum Rehabilitation Authority which had initiated a survey of the Patil Estate slums at Shivajinagar in October 2021, is still waiting for the state government approval on the new development policy to implement the redevelopment project. The Pune Slum Rehabilitation Authority which had initiated a survey of the Patil Estate slums at Shivajinagar in October 2021, is …

BJP MP files PIL in Bombay HC asking for scalping discrimination in slum rehabilitation scheme
2 years, 11 months ago

BJP MP files PIL in Bombay HC asking for scalping discrimination in slum rehabilitation scheme

India Today  

The Bombay High Court has sought replies from the Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in a public interest litigation filed by BJP MP Gopal Shetty, challenging the constitutional validity of a provision of the Slum Act that grants no benefit to first, loft or mezzanine floor inhabitants of slums in Mumbai. The PIL filed by Shetty, a BJP MP …

Reforming Slum Rehabilitation In Mumbai: The Worst-off Are The Worst Hit By Covid-19
4 years, 7 months ago

Reforming Slum Rehabilitation In Mumbai: The Worst-off Are The Worst Hit By Covid-19

Live Law  

It is estimated that roughly 40-50 percent of Mumbai's total population of 18.4 million stay in slums. At this rate – an average of 8,963 families getting homes annually – it would take more than a century to rehabilitate all of Mumbai's slum dwellers. For instance, the Maharashtra State New Housing Policy, 2015, states that in case slum dwellers fail …

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