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BMC cuts developer slack to 'save money', activists feel otherwise
Updated On: 27 November, 2018 08:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Sanjeev Shivadekar
Going back on its earlier plan to recover charges from the developer for 'inferior quality housing units', civic body proposes letting builder construct the new ones himself

The plot in Gomata Nagar, Lower Parel, where the steel PAP units were built and later demolished. Pic/Ashish Raje
It seems all's not well with the civic body — it had proposed to recover Rs 70.66 core from Skylark Buildcon for handing over housing units of inferior quality to relocate project-affected people (PAP), but the administration has now decided to settle the issue with the developer by asking him to construct new housing units for the PAP and hand them over to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
What happened
The PAP are those found living next to a nullah near the Shree Sai Sunder Nagar slum rehabilitation project in Worli. Twelve to 15 years back, the developer constructed ground-plus-seven storey structures having 608 flats of 225 square feet each for them free of cost on a vacant plot in Lower Parel provided by the BMC. The developer, in exchange, got transfer of development rights (TDR).


