20,000 new economically weaker section houses to be built in 2 years
Friday, 22 February 2013 10:08
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The Times of India 22.02.2013
20,000 new economically weaker section houses to be built in 2 years SURAT: Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has taken up its first slum redevelopment project
in Adajan and Pal. It will build 544 economically weaker section (EWS)
houses at the two places where at present slums exist, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) scheme.
Bhimji Patel, chairman, standing committee, said, "Our target is to
build 20,000 EWS houses for urban poor in the city in the coming two
years." These houses will come up at Ektanagar, Adajan and Pal.
At Ektanagar site 256 and at Pal site 288 EWS quarters will come up at a
total cost of Rs 21.67 crore. SMC has built nearly 30,000 EWS quarters at Kosad, Behstan and other sites under JnNURM scheme.
A major part of Tapi river bank at Rander and Adajan was cleared by SMC
officials and the slum dwellers were rehabilitated at Kosad EWS
quarters. SMC estimates more that than 1.25 lakh people have so
far been rehabilitated under EWS scheme and another one lakh people are
likely to get relocated in a year's time. An official from
SMC's slum rehabilitation department said, "We plan to replace slums
with EWS quarters and relocate the slum dwellers if this is not
possible."
Last Updated on Friday, 22 February 2013 10:10
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Corporators want slums upto 2000 rehabililated as project affected
Saturday, 16 February 2013 10:18
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The Times of India 16.02.2013
Corporators want slums upto 2000 rehabililated as project affected
MUMBAI: Corporators across parties have demanded that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) consider 2000 as the cut off date for giving alternate accommodation to the slums alongside of the Tansa pipeline. Following guidelines from the High Court the BMC has been taking action against slums alongside 10 metres of the Tansa pipeline in the city.
The BMC undertook demolition in G-north (Dharavi, Mahim) and South
(Bhandup) ward in November 2011, and in that drive the BMC gave
alternate accommodation to slums dwellers who were there before 1995.
Since then no demolition has taken, only notices are being served due
to the lack of tenentments for PAP's. But the corporators say that when
slums coming in way of metro and mono rail projects and projects on the
airport authority the cut off date is 2000 and so even for the BMC
projects the same cut off line should be followed. There is a court case pending in the Supreme Court
in which the cut off line will be decided. Slums that exists before the
cut off line are treated as legal and are given alternate accommodation
when being evicted. Ramesh Korgaonkar said that slums that
there demolished and if they were after 1995 and before 2000 should be
given alternate accommodation. BMC administration clarified
that the datum line for proving the slums legal will remain as 1995 for
all its projects including the Tansa pipeline slum removal project.
Sandeep Deshpande, MNS corporator said that if the slums before 2000
are given alternate accommodation and if the SC verdict is not in favour
of extending the datum line will the BMC strip the poor slum dwellers
off their homes.
Last Updated on Saturday, 16 February 2013 10:22
NMC allots 80 houses under JNNURM scheme
Saturday, 16 February 2013 04:18
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The Times of India 15.02.2013
NMC allots 80 houses under JNNURM scheme NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation
(NMC) allotted 80 houses to the beneficiaries of the slum
rehabilitation project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission (JNNURM) scheme at Nilgiri Baug, Aurangabad Road, Panchavati,
by drawing lots on Thursday. The chits were picked by the beneficiaries.
This is the first exercise of allotting houses under the scheme. Around
200 beneficiaries were present on the occasion. The remaining houses
will be allotted in the consequent phases. Slum rehabilitation
officer of the civic body Yashwant Ogle said the next draw of lots will
be held after eight days. The housing project at Nilgiri Baug has 720
housing units. The first building is ready for which the houses were
allotted on Thursday. "We will immediately shift the
beneficiaries to the houses. They will check everything in their housing
units, including light, water and other connections. There are water
and light connections provided in the units. The beneficiaries can
contact the public works department if they face any problem," said
Ogle. The civic body had, in January, announced that it would
allot 3,000 houses to the beneficiaries in the first phase in March by
drawing lots. On Thursday it made the opening and this would go on step
by step till all the units are allocated. Chairman of the
standing committee Uddhav Nimse, city engineer Sunil Khune, deputy
municipal commissioner (tax) R M Bahiram, Panchavati divisional officer,
R R Gosavi, engineers of Panchavati division, Ogle and his team from
the slum rehabilitation department were present on the occasion.
Incidentally, the JNNURM housing project, being executed by the NMC,
was initiated in 2008 but got delayed due to various reasons. While the
civic body has got an approval to build 16,000 houses, it has set a
target of 12,200 houses citing scarcity of land as the reason. Around
8,000 houses are in the various stages of construction at 11 locations
in the city.
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