According to latest reports, the Maharashtra government has decided to provide permanent houses to the families of Mumbai police personnel living at the Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) chawls for almost half the cost of construction at ₹50 lakhs.
This development came after the Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray took a review meeting of the ongoing BDD Chawl redevelopment project on Wednesday, May 18.
Following the meeting, state housing minister Jitendra Awhad said that the government would give houses to the families of 2,250 police officers as a “special case” and that Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) would bear more than half of the cost.
The construction cost for one flat is between ₹1.05 crore to ₹1.15 crores. MHADA would bear the loss, Awhad added.
The police families have lived there for four or five decades and it would have been inhuman to make them leave. In turn, MHADA will construct 2,700 police quarters.
There are a total of 2,900 service quarters at the BDD chawls at Naigaon, NM Joshi Marg at Lower Parel and Worli. Of them, 2,250 are eligible.
After the redevelopment, 2,250 tenements occupied by the families of the policemen in service, retired or residing on the compassionate ground since January 1, 2011, would be entitled to 500 sq feet flats, provided they pay for the construction cost.
The work on the redevelopment started in August 2021 and the project is touted as the largest redevelopment project in Mumbai with 121 buildings in Worli, 42 in Naigaon and 32 at NM Joshi Marg. The project will rebuild 500 sq ft homes and would come up in a phased manner.
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