Worli Police Playground to House Rehab Buildings for Chawl Tenants
NGO Citispace has paved the way for construction of permanent rehab buildings on the police playground which is part of Worli BDD chawls. A plot of the same size, accessible by a public road, has been approved by the NGO for relocation of the police playground in the same vicinity. The Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority is the nodal agency for the project. BDD chawl redevelopment project will be relaunched on 1st August. The bhoomipujan, albeit a second time, will be done by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at Jambhoori Maidan. The last time the bhoomipujan was performed by former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in 2017 and since then the project has simply lapsed. The Worli BDD chawls are part of Shiv Sena leader and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray’s assembly constituency and with civic polls slated for February 2022, this is a prestigious project for the party. Work to lay the foundation for two permanent buildings will begin soon. BMC does not allow excavation in rains, but MHADA officials said they’ll use bore well machines for piling work. At Worli, 1,120 tenements in 14 chawls have been surveyed and 958 declared as ‘eligible’. The eligibility process is underway for others. Once completed, they will be shifted to transit buildings in the vicinity. The two buildings will be 40-storey high and will have no basement. There will be a separate parking tower at Worli. In all, 32 buildings are to be built over eight years. The first two are expected to be ready in three years.
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