SRA slapped stop-work notice on HDIL’s project at BKC

The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) has slapped a stop-work notice on builder HDIL’s ongoing construction of an 11 lakh-square-foot commercial office complex in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) worth an estimated Rs 2,600 crore. The reason: HDIL failed to rehabilitate slum dwellers and hand over tenements for project-affected persons (PAPs) to SRA, though the project has been in the works for more than a decade. SRA officials said the stop-work notice, served on July 4, also applies to a swanky 10-storey business building in BKC which HDIL had built and later sold to Adani Realty. The building, Inspire BKC, has an occupation certificate only till the seventh floor. This is one of the few SRA projects where a slum pocket in Bandra (West) was clubbed with another slum pocket in BKC. The builder was tasked with rehabilitating slum dwellers free of cost in Bandra (West) to exploit the lucrative BKC plot for its sale component.