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Mumbai: BMC's New Initiative Seeks To Look After The Elderly

It has been reported that in Mumbai's draft development plan 2023 (DP) each of the 24 wards includes a provision for an old-age home.

Mumbai: BMC's New Initiative Seeks To Look After The Elderly
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has undertaken an initiative to build an old age home in Mumbai. For the same, it invited a tender on a reserved plot in Goregaon (E), with an estimated cost of INR 13.38 crore, reported the Free Press Journal. 

According to accounts, back in 2017-18, the civic body had decided to curate a separate policy for old-age homes, care centres, student hostels as well as multipurpose housing for working women. It has been reported that in Mumbai's draft development plan 2023 (DP) each of the 24 wards includes a provision for an old-age home, women's hostel and a creche. 

Therefore, in accordance with the plan, the civic body's old-age home will be built on a plot near Raheja Ridgewood, cited the narrative.

Based on the narrative, the structure will be a nine-storey building in an area of 602 sq meters. In addition, having a capacity to accommodate 70 people, will constitute all the requisite and ancillary activities for senior citizens. These could include the likes of a dispensary, medical shop, administration room, daycare, physiotherapy room, dining room, kitchen, laundry, twin-bed and single bedrooms and a recreation room.

The narrative quoted Kiran Dighavkar, an assistant municipal commissioner who elucidated that while there are many private old age homes in Mumbai, this will be the first to be built by the civic authority. He added that once it is ready, the BMC will appoint an NGO to operate by means of the CSR fund. 

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