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MUMBAI: Responding to queries connected the absorption to the Dharavi redeveloment task from a conception of slum-dwellers, its CEO, S V R Srinivas, told TOI that much than 50% of the residents person already consented to the project.
But much significantly, helium revealed that the task did not necessitate nationalist consent successful the archetypal spot due to the fact that the developer had been appointed by the authorities govt."Under the SRA rules, the gathering nine appoints the developer. For that, 50% consent is required. But here, the govt has appointed the developer. In this case, determination is nary request for consent," said Srinivas successful an exclusive interrogation to TOI.The task is being implemented by Nav Bharat Mega Developers Pvt Ltd, an SPV successful which the Adani Group holds 80% involvement and the govt 20%.
The onshore connected which Dharavi stands is owned by the govt and the BMC. Srinivas said astir 1 lakh slum-dwellers had responded to the house-to-house survey and conscionable astir 20,000 remained to beryllium surveyed. So adjacent if the 50% consent parameter was applied, it had already been crossed, helium said.Participation successful the door-to-door survey connected eligibility for rehabilitation translated into consent, helium clarified. "They person fixed their documents voluntarily.
There is simply a enactment successful the survey which says they are consenting to enactment successful the redevelopment. So, erstwhile they sign, it is consent," said Srinivas.Although consent is not required for the project, the govt had made aggregate efforts to get residents to respond to the survey and hold to the project, helium emphasised. "We don't privation to thrust roughshod connected anybody. We person already fixed 4 opportunities. We enactment it successful the paper and past we besides enactment it connected their doors," helium said.Srinivas said that the survey was inactive ongoing but astir 5 lakh eligible tenements would request to beryllium fixed escaped abstraction wrong Dharavi and 5 lakh ineligible tenements would person to determination retired to subsidised rental lodging extracurricular Dharavi.But the question is: Why a monolithic expanse of 541 acres of onshore has been earmarked for rental lodging and a escaped merchantability constituent for the Adani-led SPV? This has fuelled allegations from the absorption that the task is fundamentally a "land-grab" to seizure lucrative existent property some wrong and extracurricular Dharavi.The 541 acres for rental lodging person been allocated successful Deonar, Kurla, Aksa, Malvani and brackish cookware lands successful Bhandup, Mulund and Kanjurmarg. Of this, possession has been fixed of 63.5 acres truthful acold successful Kurla and Mulund.Srinivas said the onshore meant for rental lodging was successful the possession of the state's DRP and was not with the Adani-led SPV. "The occupation is that determination is simply a shortage of onshore successful Mumbai. We had written to galore antithetic agencies including from the cardinal authorities for these lands.
In immoderate cases, determination were rejections. So, we did not cognize which lands would travel and we started applying to antithetic places," helium said."Now these lands are coming but they volition beryllium with the DRP. Unless radical are rehabilitated, the onshore volition not beryllium fixed to the SPV," helium said. He besides said that rental units would beryllium built successful phases. If each the onshore was not required, past each the parcels would not beryllium used.The onshore which is not utilized from the 541 acres would past revert from the DRP to the govt.
"Our mandate is constricted to Dharavi. The onshore that is not used, volition revert to the govt," said Srinivas.Responding to questions astir the ground connected which the task has been planned since the door-to-door survey connected eligible and ineligible tenements is yet to beryllium completed, Srinivas said, "There was initially a drone survey followed by a LIDAR survey to representation the structures successful the area. And present determination is simply a carnal door-to-door survey, which is astir complete. Based connected these three, we did a examination and an extrapolation of data, which is however it works.
In projects of this size, immoderate things tin spell connected simultaneously," helium said.
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