Even as uncertainty surrounds the proposal for reconsidering private redevelopment plan for Crawford Market, the municipal administration is set to auction off 12 other markets.
MUMBAI: Even as uncertainty surrounds the proposal for reconsidering private redevelopment plan for Crawford Market, the municipal administration is set to auction off 12 other markets to hoteliers and other commercial entities for purposes other than developing a market.
Senior civic officials said the tenders for auctioning the markets, which were developed by the BMC on private land using accommodation reservation where a private party hands over the reservation after developing the plot, were on the cards. This move will allow private parties to use the market for commercial purposes including setting up a restaurant.
While two of these markets, one at Hiranandani Garden in Powai and the other at Valnai in Malad, were already auctioned off by the BMC, tenders for ten others could soon be issued. Three markets are in Dahisar and one each at Andheri-Ghatkopar junction, Grant Road, Millat Nagar, Goregaon, Andheri’s Kondivita lane, Parel and Santa Cruz.
The process of issuing the tenders was stalled on October 28 2007 when the state urban development department, on intervention of chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, stayed it. Deshmukh’s intervention had come after Congress MLA Naseem Khan protested the ‘misuse’ of municipal markets.
Khan met municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak on Tuesday to discuss the issue. He said market reservations were laid down by the state in the 1992-93 development plan for providing malls that would have multiple facilities under one roof. “Instead of developing the markets for the said use, BMC wants to parcel them off to beer bar owners, hoteliers and commercial malls,” Khan alleged. He added that the move would also lead to a loss of Rs1,000 crore to the civic exchequer. A senior official, not disclosing names, said, there was political pressure to go ahead with the tendering.
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