The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has approved a decision to regularise gunthewari constructions across the state. Gunthewari is an older form of measuring land and has been a contentious issue with previous state governments in Maharashtra.
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According to the Gunthewari Act, creating small plots of agricultural land in several gunthas (1,089 sq ft) is against the law. This in turn meant that undertaking construction on gunthewari land was also illegal.
With this backdrop, the Congress-run Maharashtra Government in 2001 brought the Maharashtra Gunthewari Development (Regularisation, Upgradation and Control) Act which would apply to regions on the outskirts of a municipal corporation and city boundary limits. This decision regularized gunthewari constructions until 2000.
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As per sources cited by the Indian Express, the fresh proposal placed by the MVA government on Jan 6 was to regularize gunthewari constructions till 2015. However, after some demands by members of the cabinet, the deadline was extended till December 31, 2020.
The aforementioned sources also mentioned that while the deadline may have changed, the regularisation criteria will remain unchanged. This move is expected to offer a significant boost to the Shiv Sena - NCP - Congress coalition in the local body elections scheduled between now and 2022.
It’s worth pointing out that the BJP-Shiv Sena government in 2015 had also introduced a proposal to regularize more gunthewari lands, though it did not come to fruition.
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