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 …
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 …
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 …
Mumbai: Ankit and Simran Yadav are siblings who have grown up in a transit camp called Jai Shiv Sai CHS in Bandra East. Jai SHiv Sai Building at Bandra East, seems to be on its last legs structurally, with residents claiming that it sways during heavy winds. The transit camp now seems to be on its last legs structurally, with …
