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Home-on-rent: 3,000 units to be ready in Thane soon

In a boost to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (MMRDA) rental housing scheme, around 3,000 tenements are expected to be ready soon at two sites in Thane.

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In a boost to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (MMRDA) rental housing scheme, around 3,000 tenements are expected to be ready soon at two sites in Thane.

Till now, the MMRDA has sanctioned location clearances to 41 projects and expects around one lakh houses to be built under the scheme in the next two years. Of these projects, around 20 have received permission to start work.

Under the rental housing scheme, the MMRDA plans to construct tenements to be given on a rent ranging between Rs800 and Rs1,500 a month. Any individual, who has been a resident of Maharashtra for the last 15 years and has a minimum monthly income of Rs5,000 would be able to avail a home under this scheme, which is also a slum prevention programme.

MMRDA commissioner Rahul Asthana has visited the two rental housing projects in Thane — at Vartak Nagar and Manpada. “We expect the Dosti Vihar project at Vartak Nagar to deliver 1,492 rental tenements in four buildings by August, along with 32 shops, four balwadis, four welfare centers and four cabins for caretakers,” said Asthana. At the Dosti Imperia site in Manpada, 1,429 houses in five buildings are expected to be ready soon. The same facilities will be provided here too.

The government had recently agreed to changes in the scheme and increase the size of the tenements to 300 sqft from the earlier 160 sqft.

It was decided to hike the carpet area of the 52,000 tenements for which clearances have been given for 300 sqft area, but work is yet to start. However, the size of 37,000 flats on which work has begun will remain 160 sqft.

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