The MVA appeal was to disallow the redevelopment of single buildings unless the exceptional scenarios and to promote cluster redevelopment.
This was decided for Mumbai, Nashik, Konkan, and Pune locations. However, now residents can go ahead with the building’s redevelopment.
Previously, the State housing Minister said “Mumbai city requires cluster redevelopment to take off in a big way. If we don’t make a plan for cluster development of areas between 5 to 10 acres then it would be difficult to build the city’s infrastructure let it be a road, sewerage, amenities, or drains. So we have the plan to extend the government resolution to cover all the Maharashtra’s Mhada land.”
Later he pointed out that Kannamwar Nagar at Vikhroli and Vartak Nagar in Thane, both of these Mhada layouts, an examples of danger for allowing single-building redevelopment.
The Government Resolution stated that the state housing department said “it was impossible to gain the consent of more than one building for purpose of redevelopment. Considering the internal disputes, the redevelopment possibility of being delayed cannot be excluded. However, this can affect the loss of life and property. Hence, the government is planning to remove this rule.”
Recently, the President of India approved revising the Mhada Act which made forcibly owning and redeveloping the old buildings in the cities of the island by the housing authority.
The count is more than 16,000 buildings in the cities of the island and the redevelopment of 56 buildings is kept on hold for years.
So the decision of the president of India made housing authorities take significant actions over their Mhada act and make those actions to reality as early as possible.
