MUMBAI: Additional leader secretary (housing) Sanjay Kumar has stated in his deposition earlier than the Lokayukta, justice M L Tahaliyani, that the arguable MP Mill Compound proposal authorized by means of housing minister Prakash Mehta ultimate June used to be in blatant violation of slum redevelopment regulations. Following a TOI document on July 12 ultimate year, the proposal used to be stayed by means of CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Sources stated Kumar, in his deposition on Thursday, defined to Justice Tahaliyani the principles for redevelopment of slums and powers of the Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA). At Tardeo’s MP Mill Compound, the slumdwellers had proposed in-situ rehabilitation in addition to expansion of tenement dimension from 225sq.ft to 269sq.ft. The developer had submitted that in-situ expansion used to be not possible, but stated he would offer 300 tenements for project-affected individuals (PAPs) in other places.
The proposal used to be in violation of Development Control regulations, and if it had been authorised, just about one lakh sq.ft of area would be available to the developer as sale part, that too on the similar spot in south Mumbai.
When the proposal used to be submitted to Mehta, he wrote on the file that the CM were briefed on the subject and after a solution by means of the society’s normal body, the federal government would get tenements for project-affected individuals. Following the minister’s statement, the housing division wrote to the SRA leader executive officer that any order will have to be handed conserving in thoughts the Maharashtra Slum (Improvement, Removal and Redevelopment) Rules in addition to DC regulations.
There are 1,969 tenements on the land. Under the principles, it's binding on the builder to offer a tenement of 225sq.ft; this used to be later higher to 269sq.ft. The developer submitted that as a substitute of the extra area of 44sq.ft, he would offer tenements in other places for PAPs and in lieu asked for permission to retain an incentive area of 1 lakh sq.ft.
The then SRA CEO Vishwas Patil had submitted the developer’s proposal to the federal government for approval beneath rule 3(k) of slum redevelopment regulations. But Kumar rejected the proposal, saying that beneath rule 3(k), the federal government has powers to provide policy instructions to SRA for development of slums, but there is not any provision to grant permission for person proposals. “The proposal submitted beneath rule 3(k) for MP Mill Compound used to be blatantly unlawful and dangerous in regulation,” the bureaucrat stated.
After CM Prithviraj Chavan raised the issue in the legislative assembly, saying it used to be a Rs 500 crore scam, and demanded that Mehta be sacked from the state cabinet, Fadnavis then declared that the probe into the scam would be entrusted to the Lokayukta. As in keeping with provisions of the Lokayukta Act, the CM’s proposal for a probe used to be submitted to Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, who directed the Lokayukta to start up the inquiry against Mehta. Apart from Sanjay Kumar, more than part a dozen officers of the housing division have thus far deposed earlier than the Lokayukta.
Sources stated Kumar, in his deposition on Thursday, defined to Justice Tahaliyani the principles for redevelopment of slums and powers of the Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA). At Tardeo’s MP Mill Compound, the slumdwellers had proposed in-situ rehabilitation in addition to expansion of tenement dimension from 225sq.ft to 269sq.ft. The developer had submitted that in-situ expansion used to be not possible, but stated he would offer 300 tenements for project-affected individuals (PAPs) in other places.
The proposal used to be in violation of Development Control regulations, and if it had been authorised, just about one lakh sq.ft of area would be available to the developer as sale part, that too on the similar spot in south Mumbai.
When the proposal used to be submitted to Mehta, he wrote on the file that the CM were briefed on the subject and after a solution by means of the society’s normal body, the federal government would get tenements for project-affected individuals. Following the minister’s statement, the housing division wrote to the SRA leader executive officer that any order will have to be handed conserving in thoughts the Maharashtra Slum (Improvement, Removal and Redevelopment) Rules in addition to DC regulations.
There are 1,969 tenements on the land. Under the principles, it's binding on the builder to offer a tenement of 225sq.ft; this used to be later higher to 269sq.ft. The developer submitted that as a substitute of the extra area of 44sq.ft, he would offer tenements in other places for PAPs and in lieu asked for permission to retain an incentive area of 1 lakh sq.ft.
The then SRA CEO Vishwas Patil had submitted the developer’s proposal to the federal government for approval beneath rule 3(k) of slum redevelopment regulations. But Kumar rejected the proposal, saying that beneath rule 3(k), the federal government has powers to provide policy instructions to SRA for development of slums, but there is not any provision to grant permission for person proposals. “The proposal submitted beneath rule 3(k) for MP Mill Compound used to be blatantly unlawful and dangerous in regulation,” the bureaucrat stated.
After CM Prithviraj Chavan raised the issue in the legislative assembly, saying it used to be a Rs 500 crore scam, and demanded that Mehta be sacked from the state cabinet, Fadnavis then declared that the probe into the scam would be entrusted to the Lokayukta. As in keeping with provisions of the Lokayukta Act, the CM’s proposal for a probe used to be submitted to Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, who directed the Lokayukta to start up the inquiry against Mehta. Apart from Sanjay Kumar, more than part a dozen officers of the housing division have thus far deposed earlier than the Lokayukta.
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