Out of 1,340 eligible slum-dwellers, 804 were allotted tenements in Nirmal Nagar CHS via lottery, which included 410 who were either dead or became ineligible
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has ordered an inquiry into the allotment of tenements in a slum redevelopment scheme in Sion Koliwada, taking the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to task over alleged mass illegal allotments to “missing” persons.
Remarking that the situation was “highly unconscionable and shocking”, the court directed the authorities to conduct an inquiry into the irregularities, fix the role of the developer, and state what action had been taken on the alleged illegal allotments.
A bench of Justice Girish Kulkarni and Justice Aarti Sathe remarked, “We have a grave doubt as to whether the SRA continues to have any statutory control whatsoever, in the manner known to law, qua the slum schemes it governs.”
The court made these scathing remarks while hearing a petition relating to a project that launched more than a decade ago, on May 5, 2014, when the Nirmal Nagar Cooperative Housing Society in Sion Koliwada appointed a developer to undertake a slum rehabilitation project.