| Two years after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation reserved 36 plots across the city to house its 27,000 conservancy workers; it is now contemplating giving out a part of these plots to private developers for commercial activities. In return, the cash crunched BMC is hopeful of getting financial aid from developers for constructing housing for its solid waste management department employees.In February 2008, the BMC had first proposed a scheme ‘Ashray’ to build staff quarters for conservancy workers with a carpet area of 350 square metres each by okaying FSI of 4 on these municipal owned plots — 17 in the city and 10 in the western suburbs and nine in the eastern suburbs. However, the project has not been implemented so far because of lack of funds.
While announcing BMC’s annual budget for the financial year 2010-11, municipal commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya said parts of these lands could be given away for commercial exploitation. “We are exploring the feasibility of reserving certain part of the project for commercial purposes so that builders and developers are attracted to these projects and the financial burden on the BMC is eased to some extent,” said Kshatriya adding that the BMC will soon draft a policy in this regard. Source : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/BMC-to-give-out-part-of-its-plots-to-pvt-developers/576871 |