The civic body requires the 9,700 sq metres plot in Anandvalli to
rehabilitate the slum-dwellers and people below the poverty line under
the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) announced
by the central government in 2010.

In 2012, the NMC had started
the construction work in Anandvalli when they found that the plot
belonged to the MIDC. The MIDC had then demanded Rs 1.25 crore from the
corporation in exchange for the land while the NMC did not want to pay
more than a crore. The civic body is now planning to revise its offer to
Rs 1.12 crore.

“The housing project at Anandvalli is getting
delayed as due to deadlock over the price. The plot has been estimated
at Rs 1.12 crore approximately. A proposal for the same will be tabled
by the administration at the general body meeting (GBM) on Wednesday for
its approval,” said a senior NMC official.

The NMC had
selected 11 locations in the city and has received approval from the
central government under JnNURM to build 16,000 houses for the project.
But the NMC will now construct 11,200 houses as per the availability of
land. Construction work for 8,000 houses has already commenced at
various locations in the city. In February, the NMC had allotted houses
to the beneficiaries at their housing project in Nilgiri Bag.

“The NMC has still not approached us with the fresh proposal. We will
decide on the cost only after they send us the proposal,” said an MIDC official.