Maharashtra Government is planning to change the reservation of a few plots at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), a prime business district in the suburban Mumbai, from commercial to residential.
Maharashtra Government is planning to change the reservation of a few plots at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), a prime business district in the suburban Mumbai, from commercial to residential, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said today here.
"At present there are no residential plots in the business district. The concept of `walk to work' will enhance the standard of living in the area and is aimed at elite sections of the society. There are schools, offices, clubs, hospitals, etc, there, but no residential areas," Chavan said.
Describing the BKC, developed between eastern and western suburbs, as a "success", Chavan said the government was exploring the possibility of creating another business hub in the north Mumbai, in areas such as Wadala, Oshiwara or Malvani.
Spelling out his vision for Mumbai, where the civic polls will be held on February 16, Chavan said the Congress-NCP joint manifesto will highlight the plans for transportation, affordable housing and safe drinking water.
Hitting out at the incumbent Sena-BJP which have been ruling Mumbai corporation for 17 years, Chavan said there was no transparency in tender process, and blacklisted contractors were given repair/road construction works repeatedly.
He said the state government had hired a Swiss company, SGS, for testing the roads. "It will be reviewing and monitoring the standards of roads as per Indian Road Congress guidelines," he said.
The Chief Minister rejected the criticism that he had ceded too much space to NCP by forming pre-poll alliance with it in places such as Mumbai and Nagpur, where the Sharad Pawar-led party does not have much base.
"It is absurd to say that. My larger aim is to defeat the Shiv Sena-BJP. In the last two elections we tried to do that by going it alone, and failed. My party (Congress) is not in the position to fight Sena-BJP and NCP at once," Chavan said.
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