The Hindu Business Line : Maharashtra slum redevelopment way behind schedule

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government's initiative for making Mumbai a slum-free city by 2015 is way behind schedule with hardly 1.5 lakh houses constructed over the past 14 years against the targeted 8 lakh.

“So far we have made 1.5 lakh units and 2.5 lakh units are still under construction. We need to develop 5 lakh more units,'' State Housing Department's Secretary Mr Sitaram Kunte told PTI here.

The Rs 32,000-crore Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA) scheme was introduced in 1995 by the then Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government with a view to rehabilitate millions of slum-dwellers in the city.

The global economic downturn resulted in an overall slowdown in several redevelopment projects of state government, including the SRA scheme and the Dharavi Development Project, Mr Kunte said.

However, he declined to detail further on the Rs 5,600-crore Dharavi project--the world's largest slum rehabilitation programme.

“The private developers were not too keen during the economic slump (to take up projects) and hence the slow progress. It was even considered unviable in some of the suburbs as the sale rates were less than Rs 2,000 per sq. ft,'' Mr Kunte said. - PTI

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