The decks may soon be cleared for the rehabilitation of around 12 lakh slum dwellers living on 78 hectares happiness to the Indian Railways. Railway minister Suresh Prabhu approved the set up of a venture to rehabilitate the folks on constant land.
According to Associate, the in-situ rehabilitation agreement, the unmoved rehabilitation are going to be done by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) of the regime in a very venture with the railways.
In step with a supply, the Railways can make sure that ample land needed for the continuing setup and future growth is cleared before the rehabilitation set up was chalked out.
Around 12 lakh people live in slums spread over 37.25 hectares owned by the Central Railway and 41.2 hectares of the Western Railway in the city. “The rehabilitation of slum dwellers around the international airport on the land of the Airport Authority of India was done through a joint venture.
The rehabilitation on railway land will also be undertaken in a similar fashion. The state government has been asked to submit a detailed proposal for approval by the railway board,” an official present at the meeting said.
The chief minister’s office later tweeted, “Decision taken in this meeting for rehabilitation of slum dwellers on the Railway land by setting up of JV by GoM and @RailMinIndia! State housing debt and @RailMinIndia to come together. SRA scheme to be made applicable to help 12 lakh slum dwellers of Mumbai.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar said that his party has been pursuing the plan for rehabilitation for the past two years. “As the slums are on the central government land, they cannot be rehabilitated under the SRA scheme of the state government.
We have been demanding their rehabilitation as part of the BJP government’s policy of ‘housing for all’.
We also had met Prabhu twice in his Delhi office to push for the demand,” he said.
The decision was taken throughout a gathering between chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Prabhu and high officers from the Indian Railways and authorities on Tues at the CM’s official residence.
BJP’s different legislators Atul Bhatkhalkar, Manisha Chaudhari and leaders too were gift for the meeting.
Meanwhile, the state government and Railway ministry resolved to expedite ongoing railway projects worth Rs 1.36 crore.
The state government assured to make the land available by evicting encroachers, rehabilitating tenants and acquiring the lands at the earliest. Railway authorities were directed to speed up the ongoing projects.
The railways also took up the problem of delayed land acquisition for the continued comes off latest lines between Ahmednagar-Beed-Parli and Wardha-Nanded-Gadchiroli.
whereas collaborating within the meeting through video conferencing, collectors of the individual districts have assured the govt. to complete the acquisition latest by July 2017.