Mumbai: India's largest urban relocation programme, the Mumbai airport slum clearance projectis a virtual non-starter five years after its commencement. Till today, barely any shanties have been cleared from the airport's encroached land and yet the builder appointed to remove the shanties and rehouse slumdwellers has earned an estimated Rs 2,000 crore from the project.
The Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) was in 2007 given the task of rehabilitating around 85,000 slum families encroaching on 276 acres of airport land on its own plots a few kilometres from the airport site. So far, the developer has built about 10,000 tenements in Kurla. For this, it has received transfer of development rights (TDR), which it sold and reaped a windfall of Rs 2,000 crore.
12/05/12 Nauzer K Bharucha/Times of India
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