PUNE: Legal tangles and encroachments are two primary hurdles the civic government have to overcome for enforcing the rehabilitation venture on the Patil Estate slums within the Shivajinagar house.
At least 100 of the 1,200 properties at the banks of the Mula within the Patil Estate slums off Pune-Mumbai highway were destroyed in a fire that broke out within the hutment around Wednesday afternoon and persisted to rage for around 2 hours.
The ownership of the land, on which the slums have come up, is below dispute. The land was once allotted to College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) within the overdue 1980s, however may just no longer be applied essentially as a result of encroachments.
CoEP government stated when the land was once given to them, there have been just about 250 slums. They added that the land was once allotted with an assurance that the shanties can be removed. But that did not occur.
To make topic worse, the selection of shanties has over time greater as much as 1,100. CoEP had approached the high court to end up its right at the land.
“The court had given a ruling in our favour. We need to use the land to create facilities for our scholars. We want the folks dwelling within the slums to be resettled. For this, a slum redevelopment scheme has to be made,” CoEP director B B Ahuja stated.
“We have approached the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to put in force the venture. They have instructed us to get a no objection certificate from the schooling department. We are within the process to obtain it,” he stated.
PMC officers admit that the encroachments at the land was once a large factor. They, alternatively, stated removing of the slums was once tricky since the shanties have won a legal standing. Options reminiscent of redevelopment should be explored for the folks dwelling within the slums, an professional stated.
“The hutment could be very old and has earned the standing of a ‘notified slum’. It has given the folks dwelling there a legal right to stick put,” PMC city engineer Prashant Waghmare stated.
Many folks dwelling within the house stated the world has two slum pockets — one at Patil Estate slum and the other at Mahatma Gandhi Vasahat. The two pockets are unfold over around 6 acres of land. The shanties advanced on around 4 acre land were notified with the folks dwelling there getting the legal standing. However, the slums at the final 2 acres of land are unlawful.
The citizens also want implementation of the SRA scheme on the earliest.
They added that rehabilitation of those who have suffered as a result of Wednesday’s fireplace should be carried out immediately.
“The dwelling stipulations within the slums are pathetic within the absence of the fundamental facilities. The roads are narrow. The citizens can hardly walk to their respective properties,” stated Kacharu Kamble, a resident.
“Issues reminiscent of sanitation and transport are a significant fear. A slum rehabilitation programme is the need of hour for this house,” he added.
Local MLA Vijay Kale stated, “All the stakeholders were brought to a not unusual platform to get to the bottom of the issue and a meeting was once convened. Discussions were held to discover quite a lot of choices to make the SRA scheme workable on this complex state of affairs.”
At least 100 of the 1,200 properties at the banks of the Mula within the Patil Estate slums off Pune-Mumbai highway were destroyed in a fire that broke out within the hutment around Wednesday afternoon and persisted to rage for around 2 hours.
The ownership of the land, on which the slums have come up, is below dispute. The land was once allotted to College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) within the overdue 1980s, however may just no longer be applied essentially as a result of encroachments.
CoEP government stated when the land was once given to them, there have been just about 250 slums. They added that the land was once allotted with an assurance that the shanties can be removed. But that did not occur.
To make topic worse, the selection of shanties has over time greater as much as 1,100. CoEP had approached the high court to end up its right at the land.
“The court had given a ruling in our favour. We need to use the land to create facilities for our scholars. We want the folks dwelling within the slums to be resettled. For this, a slum redevelopment scheme has to be made,” CoEP director B B Ahuja stated.
“We have approached the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to put in force the venture. They have instructed us to get a no objection certificate from the schooling department. We are within the process to obtain it,” he stated.
PMC officers admit that the encroachments at the land was once a large factor. They, alternatively, stated removing of the slums was once tricky since the shanties have won a legal standing. Options reminiscent of redevelopment should be explored for the folks dwelling within the slums, an professional stated.
“The hutment could be very old and has earned the standing of a ‘notified slum’. It has given the folks dwelling there a legal right to stick put,” PMC city engineer Prashant Waghmare stated.
Many folks dwelling within the house stated the world has two slum pockets — one at Patil Estate slum and the other at Mahatma Gandhi Vasahat. The two pockets are unfold over around 6 acres of land. The shanties advanced on around 4 acre land were notified with the folks dwelling there getting the legal standing. However, the slums at the final 2 acres of land are unlawful.
The citizens also want implementation of the SRA scheme on the earliest.
They added that rehabilitation of those who have suffered as a result of Wednesday’s fireplace should be carried out immediately.
“The dwelling stipulations within the slums are pathetic within the absence of the fundamental facilities. The roads are narrow. The citizens can hardly walk to their respective properties,” stated Kacharu Kamble, a resident.
“Issues reminiscent of sanitation and transport are a significant fear. A slum rehabilitation programme is the need of hour for this house,” he added.
Local MLA Vijay Kale stated, “All the stakeholders were brought to a not unusual platform to get to the bottom of the issue and a meeting was once convened. Discussions were held to discover quite a lot of choices to make the SRA scheme workable on this complex state of affairs.”
Patil Estate slum rehab stuck in legal dispute
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