12 years on, housing for cops to take off
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: Twelve years after it was, a private housing project for Mumbai police constables for which 6,000 constables collected hundreds of crores of rupees still stands incomplete. Mumbai, India - March 31, 2023: Around 4000 retired police constables gathered for a general body meeting regarding a private housing scheme planned a decade ago and still waiting for their houses. Former MLA Chandrashekhar Prabhu said he attended the meeting to help the constables get their dream houses soon under the self-redevelopment scheme. In 2019, I paid ₹1.80 lakh again and I have all the receipts and records.” “While no decision has been made till now, the discussion did touch upon the idea of selling some part of the purchased land to build houses for constables,” Sankpal, who retired from RCF police station in 2016, said.