Bombay Dyeing Mills’ land at Lower Parel and Wadala to be used for building tenements.
If the high court verdict given on Friday comes through, mill workers may get 3,592 tenements measuring 16,113sqm on the Bombay Dyeing mills land at Lower Parel and Wadala. Similarly, 10 other private and National Textiles Corporation (NTC) mills owe nearly 16,194sqm of land, on which 4,397 more tenements could be built.
Bombay Dyeing has the largest share of the land that is to be submitted to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada), followed by Century Mills (9535sqm), Madhusudan Mills (3032sqm), Shrinivas Mills (2341sqm) and Prakash Cotton (2534sqm). Of the 58 mills that have been defunct, 46 have submitted their redevelopment plans — 18 of these have surrendered one-third each of the land’s share to Mhada and the BMC as per provisions in the Development Control Rule (DCR). Of the rest of the mills, 11 are private and an equal number are owned by NTC. The land of the remaining mills cannot be transferred due to various reason including CRZ regulations.
An official from the urban development department said that they are trying to ensure speedy submission of the Mhada share of land of the mills undergoing development. “Mills like Century, Prakash, India United No 4 and Sitaram have submitted their lay outs to the municipal corporation and we expect them to submit the land soon,” he added.
The issue of false claim of the modernisation of the Bombay Dyeing mills was raised in the state assembly a few weeks ago, following which the state government had issued a ‘stop work’ notice to the mill. The opposition claimed that the mills had kept only eight looms running with the help of 63 workers. It was also alleged that the due permission was not sought from the labour department.
Section 58 of the DCR allows development on 30% of land only if the mill owner opts for modernisation. Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti, the labour union fighting for the rights of mill workers, has demanded that this provision be removed from the DCR.
“The modernisation clause is being widely misused. Shrinivas Mills has also been claiming to have undertaken modernisation. Using the guise of modernisation, these mill owners have been developing the entire land,” said Praveen Ghag, general secretary of the union.
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