For speedy implementation of Airport specific slum rehabilitation scheme in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), the state of Maharashtra Urban Development Department in its recently issued final notification has made it clear that those slum dwellers who are not joining this scheme will lose their rehabilitation rights.
The notification reads: "Any slum dweller not joining the scheme till the building permission to the slum rehabilitation scheme (SRS) is given, shall completely lose their right to any rehabilitation tenement, and their rehabilitation tenement shall be taken over by the MIAL/ Competent Authority and used for the purpose of accommodating pavement dwellers and other slum dwellers, which cannot be rehabilitated in-situ."
Following the proposed expansion plan of the existing Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, the state urban development department approved the rehabilitation of slum-dwellers here. In fact, in 2014, the civil aviation minister, government of India had expressed great concern about the security threat posed by the existence of slums in close proximity of airport operations.
Therefore, it gave in-principle approval for in-situ rehabilitation of slums here and had asked state for the formulation and implementation of Airport specific slum rehabilitation scheme for all slum-dwellers.
Parag Alwani, the local legislator of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) praised government of India for prompting first rehabilitation scheme for airport slum dwellers. He said, "Allowing to use the central government land for rehabilitation of slum dwellers was a huge step as it never happened before. On 65 acres of land this rehabilitation will be carried out."
When asked about the non-protected slum dwellers would be offered ex-situ rehabilitation tenement as notified, Alwani strongly opposed. He explained, "the amended Maharashtra state slum act says even the unprotected slum dweller will be given in-situ rehabilitation and if at it is absolutely not possible then only they will be given houses outside. So not giving in-situ rehabilitation tenement to unprotected slum dwellers is contradictory to the Maharashtra Slum Act. State government should not make contradictory laws and 65 acres of central government land is big enough to rehabilitate everybody. If required they can ask for more land or otherwise it will create obstacles in the scheme unnecessarily."
09/07/21 Sweety Adimulam/Free Press Journal
To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline
0 comments:
Post a Comment