Mumbai facelift: is it too good to be true?
Imagine 70 million sq ft land changing from slums to skyscrapers!!! That is the plan IAS officer I.S. Chahal (Vice-President of
The plan include giving the land to a builder for development and major points are
- The slum dwellers will be given 225 sq ft flats in some of those buildings. I know the place would be very small but i guess its still more than the place they have currently.
- The govt. will get 450Rs per sq ft premium which would not be very great but still worth mentioning.
- There will be a focus on local amenities like building of schools, colleges, hospitals and police stations.
Some of the pluses I see in this:
- Think of all the problems slum dwellers have from from garbage, sanitation, roads, congestion, etc. Slum dwellers doesn't even have proper sanitary arrangements. It would be a change of lifetime for them.
- It would solve the land shortage problem of Mumbai to a very great extent.
- If planned and executed properly, it would have lots of schools, parks, hospitals etc. Social improvement in line.
Do share your views on this.
4 comments:
I only wish there is a way to prevent them from renting or subletting it.
if you are talking about slum dwellers, I don't think there would be much demand for 225 sq ft flats when 70 million sq ft of land is being converted in multi story buildings!!!
During Pushkars land and built-up areas are alloted in a suburb to shift ppl from the town and clear the river area. but within a few years the slums are back . that's what made me wonder.
This is not the clearing of the land only ... the people living there would continue living in a bit better housing. Apart from that the rest of the floor space would be sold.
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