This suggestion made by a committee of MLAs to the government is expected to bring relief to the tenants of dilapidated cessed buildings, whose redevelopment projects are in the lurch.
Projects of developers who fail to complete the same within three months of receiving NOC, will be taken over by MHADA for the project to either be completed by the authority or by a new developer appointed by the project’s committee. This suggestion made by a committee of MLAs to the government is expected to bring relief to the tenants of dilapidated cessed buildings, whose redevelopment projects are in the lurch.
“The suggestion is that all buildings that have received an NOC from MHADA for redevelopment, are demolished and no development work has begun, then they be taken over by MHADA. The stipulated time is three years from the date of NOC,” said Amin Patel, MLA for Mumbadevi. The Mumbadevi constituency sees most mishaps in dilapidated buildings.
The state had discussed a similar proposal last year, which asked for tenants to be allowed to change the developer mid-way if they (developer) are not completing the project. Over 100 projects under the Development Control Room 33 (7) (DCR) are stuck because of this issue on standstill. The DCR so far does not have a clause that allows tenants to expel a developer in case of project delays.
From over 14,000 cessed buildings in South Mumbai alone, nearly 2,200 projects have either been completed or have initiated the process of redevelopment. A MHADA official claimed that there are more than 100 such projects that are stuck for various reasons.
Ajay Chowdhury, MLA from Sewri constituency, said this will help fasten the redevelopment of cessed building.
Under an SRA scheme if a developer fails to complete the project, the slum dwellers have the authority to appoint a new developer after approaching the SRA under section 3 (2) of Slum Redevelopment Act.
CASE HISTORY
In August last year, a cessed building in Nagpada crashed killing 33 people. Post which the issue of redevelopment of cessed and old building came to the fore again
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