Indian Express 01.10.2010
BMC passes purchase notices for 4 plots under Juhu Vile Parle development plan
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s(BMC) Improvements Committee on Thursday passed purchase notices for four Juhu Vile Parle Development scheme (JVPD) plots reserved for public amenities. Once the general body of the BMC approves the purchase notices, the civic administration will pay a specified amount to gain control over the plots.
According to the Ready Reckoner rates, the four plots are worth over Rs 470 crore— plots for a library (2980 sq metre) worth Rs 49 crore, playground (18700 sq metre) worth Rs 307.81 crore, market (265 sq metre) worth Rs 4.3 crore , and a garden (7565 sq metre) worth Rs 117.2 crore.
"We have passed the purchase notices but have also communicated to the administration that no money should be paid for these plots as they are in fact BMC’s plots,” said Manoj Kotak, chairman of the Improvements Committee and a BJP corporator. “Now it should be the administration’s lookout to pay or not to pay but we are of the view that the BMC should not pay anything to own something which belongs to it,” said Kotak.
