Mumbai: Government to Provide Houses to People Living in Slum Homes Built After 2000
Maharashtra government has given a green signal to provide housing units to those living in port-200 slum homes in Mumbai under the slum redevelopment model. The Urban Development Department headed by Chief Minster, has modified norms opening the doors for accommodation of even those slum dwellers who declared ineligible for rehabilitation.
The next civic polls in Mumbai are in February 2017 and every fourth city residents who are living in slum, are a much sought-after voter constituencies for all political parties.
The residents of slums in dwelling units built before January 1, 2000- remained unchanged, the government has now provided to accommodate the structure built later in the balance reaming area that vacant after all eligible slumdwellers have been rehabilitated, and the sale components due to developers has been taken care of.
According to the information, about fifteen percent homes in the slum enclave are undergoing redevelopment which are presently ineligible for rehabilitation.
According to the clarification of senior government officials, the modified provisions would be not applicable to high density slum pockets, where the incentive floor space is already on the higher side.
Regulations governing slum redevelopment in Mumbai stipulate that the minimum number of tenements for rehabilitation of hutment dwellers must be 500 per hectare with lands reserved for public amenities excluded from the calculation.
In an event where the number of tenements to be provided to hutment dwellers is less than this minimum standard, norms state that the balance tenements are to be handed over free of cost to the state-run Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), which uses it as transit shelters or for accomodation of persons affected by various infrastructure projects.
While rehabilitation of pavement dwellers or eligible hutment dwellers from another slum is also permitted under the head, the existing provisions do not permit these to be used for rehabilitation of ineligible slum dwellers.
This provision has modified by CM and to accommodate ineligible hutment dwellers, the authority has now also been permitted to use these tenements for “affordable housing and rental housing”.
Further, an Additional provision that grands the SRA to utilize the balance FSI (Floor Area Index) available in a slum scheme, after the rehabilitation of eligible slum dwellers, for “building additional PAPS, affordable housing, and rental housing” has been introduced to extended the applicability of the move. This, however, comes with a rider that the additional construction would not exceed the maximum permissible FSI limits.
The size of affordable housing is around 269 square foot that fits the bill, while a rental home size ranging from 180 sq.ft to 320 square feet.
The scheme was to prioritize the allotment of these homes to ineligible slum dwellers of the same scheme, the source said. But the government has decided to separately work on the model for allotment of homes to these people, since it is wary that providing them free of cost would cause proliferation of slums.
Aseem Gupta, CEO of SRA, quoted that these ineligible slum homes reveal that there is an unmet demand for affordable housing. So we have provided for building such homes in slums where there is constructability. The government will later decide on the mode and the model for their allotment.
According to the study of SRA, nearly 50 percent of redevelopment project that were stuck, faced problems dealing with ineligible slum homes,
On the matter, a senior official said that it was felt that unless you accomodate these in some manner, it would be difficult to speed up projects.
According to the consideration of SRA CEO, it was found that some of these declared ineligible are deemed fit for rehabilitation at a later date, which invariably impacts the planning of such schemes.
From 1996, the SRA has allotted around 1,500 redevelopment projects. But barely 250-odd among these have been completed so far. That is less than 16 per cent completed projects in 19 years. Meanwhile, the slum population in Mumbai, which was 40 lakh in 1996, has risen to 52 lakh.
Earlier, the officials of state housing department and the SRA had pushed for amendments to this effect in the revised development control regulations for Mumbai but BMC has resisted the move.
The revised DC rules however have permitted the SRA chief to relax the minimum tenement density norms in certain cases while proposing higher FSI incentives to slum developers.
Slum sprawls in prime Mumbai locations have turned out to be goldmine for private developers with some of the most luxurious residential towers being constructed on such lands.
The modified norms also permit the SRA chief to make use of the balance FSI for construction of staff quarters.
Maharashtra government has given a green signal to provide housing units to those living in port-200 slum homes in Mumbai under the slum redevelopment model. The Urban Development Department headed by Chief Minster, has modified norms opening the doors for accommodation of even those slum dwellers who declared ineligible for rehabilitation.
The next civic polls in Mumbai are in February 2017 and every fourth city residents who are living in slum, are a much sought-after voter constituencies for all political parties.
The residents of slums in dwelling units built before January 1, 2000- remained unchanged, the government has now provided to accommodate the structure built later in the balance reaming area that vacant after all eligible slumdwellers have been rehabilitated, and the sale components due to developers has been taken care of.
According to the information, about fifteen percent homes in the slum enclave are undergoing redevelopment which are presently ineligible for rehabilitation.
According to the clarification of senior government officials, the modified provisions would be not applicable to high density slum pockets, where the incentive floor space is already on the higher side.
Regulations governing slum redevelopment in Mumbai stipulate that the minimum number of tenements for rehabilitation of hutment dwellers must be 500 per hectare with lands reserved for public amenities excluded from the calculation.
In an event where the number of tenements to be provided to hutment dwellers is less than this minimum standard, norms state that the balance tenements are to be handed over free of cost to the state-run Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), which uses it as transit shelters or for accomodation of persons affected by various infrastructure projects.
While rehabilitation of pavement dwellers or eligible hutment dwellers from another slum is also permitted under the head, the existing provisions do not permit these to be used for rehabilitation of ineligible slum dwellers.
This provision has modified by CM and to accommodate ineligible hutment dwellers, the authority has now also been permitted to use these tenements for “affordable housing and rental housing”.
Further, an Additional provision that grands the SRA to utilize the balance FSI (Floor Area Index) available in a slum scheme, after the rehabilitation of eligible slum dwellers, for “building additional PAPS, affordable housing, and rental housing” has been introduced to extended the applicability of the move. This, however, comes with a rider that the additional construction would not exceed the maximum permissible FSI limits.
The size of affordable housing is around 269 square foot that fits the bill, while a rental home size ranging from 180 sq.ft to 320 square feet.
The scheme was to prioritize the allotment of these homes to ineligible slum dwellers of the same scheme, the source said. But the government has decided to separately work on the model for allotment of homes to these people, since it is wary that providing them free of cost would cause proliferation of slums.
Aseem Gupta, CEO of SRA, quoted that these ineligible slum homes reveal that there is an unmet demand for affordable housing. So we have provided for building such homes in slums where there is constructability. The government will later decide on the mode and the model for their allotment.
According to the study of SRA, nearly 50 percent of redevelopment project that were stuck, faced problems dealing with ineligible slum homes,
On the matter, a senior official said that it was felt that unless you accomodate these in some manner, it would be difficult to speed up projects.
According to the consideration of SRA CEO, it was found that some of these declared ineligible are deemed fit for rehabilitation at a later date, which invariably impacts the planning of such schemes.
From 1996, the SRA has allotted around 1,500 redevelopment projects. But barely 250-odd among these have been completed so far. That is less than 16 per cent completed projects in 19 years. Meanwhile, the slum population in Mumbai, which was 40 lakh in 1996, has risen to 52 lakh.
Earlier, the officials of state housing department and the SRA had pushed for amendments to this effect in the revised development control regulations for Mumbai but BMC has resisted the move.
The revised DC rules however have permitted the SRA chief to relax the minimum tenement density norms in certain cases while proposing higher FSI incentives to slum developers.
Slum sprawls in prime Mumbai locations have turned out to be goldmine for private developers with some of the most luxurious residential towers being constructed on such lands.
The modified norms also permit the SRA chief to make use of the balance FSI for construction of staff quarters.
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