RTI Activist in Mumbai exposes Mhada Executive

Engineer’s malafide intentions

RTI Activist in Mumbai has Exposed Yawning Gaps in MHADA they don’t follow
what they Preach,In a latest reply for an RTI Filed by the Editorial team of rtiactivist.com
with the C2 Division of MHADA Redevelopment Board the Executive Engineer of C-2
Division Mr.Sikligar has out rightly denied any Redevelopment happening in Kalbadevi
area whereas the facts are something different,The RTI Activist Editorial Team has
accessed files which are related to Redevelopment for Kalbadevi area,More over not
only the Executive Engineer Mr.Sikligar has denied the Redevelopment process but
also replied the RTI as a normal query,without mentioning name of any Appellate
authority for filing the first appeal if not satisfied with the reply and disposed the RTI
application !!

Its not even a day when The Mumbai board of the Maharashtra Housing and Area
Development Authority (Mhada) had decided to come down heavily on developers who
delay the process of redevelopment of its projects in the city.
In a board meeting held on Monday the 31st Jan 2011, the members had unanimously
decided to bring in the proposal to blacklist such developers in its next meeting
scheduled to be held in February this year.
The intention as per the (MHADA )Board Chairman Amarjit Singh Manhas is to blacklist
these developers so that the redevelopment process is speeds up in future and issues
related to transit camps do not creep up.
After a recent decision of the board as well as Mhada to create housing stock through
the redevelopment of its colonies across the city, many colonies have decided to go for
redevelopment. However, there are a number of colonies which have already opted for
redevelopment and are facing delays- mainly due to the developers not initiating the
process and due to which few of the residents move to other places after a building
goes for development but developers delay the start of the construction. “This has often
resulted in societies not being interested in redevelopment.

But here in this Case( Kalbadevi area) the Redevelopment process has been delayed
more than 2 years by the Executive Engineer sighting various reasons and quotation
have been raised sighting various reasons, where as the actual occupants and owner
had already agreed for the redevelopment,one more reason has been again given to
the owners and tenants of non availability of Sand….These issues have to be looked in
to by the Board Chairman Mr.Amarjit Singh Manhas where their own Engineer has been
purposely delaying and denying Redevelopment work in Kalbadevi area…..Shouldn’t
he be Black listed too……

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