Committee Promises to Change the Face of Mumbai

March 14, 2007	(1 votes, average: 2 out of 5)  Loading ...
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A committee has been formed to give Mumbai a major facelift. First step in that direction is the proposed federation to undertake the task in joint ventures with government agencies by Lalit Gandhi, chairman and managing director of Lok Group.

However, Gandhi has already made the presentation to politicians, city planners and former bureaucrats. The presentation focused on reconstruction of unsafe buildings and up-gradation of city infrastructure through public-private partnership by a proposed Remaking of Mumbai Federation.

Talking about his next plan, Gandhi said, his next step is to form the Remaking of Mumbai Federation adding that these supporting organizations, associations of real estate builders and architects etc. will then discuss and form a consensus about the basic concepts before signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state or centre.

Gandhi has already convened a “core founder committee” on Feb 17 that has eminent personalities like HDFC Chief Deepak Parekh, Bombay first chairman Narinder Nayar and Municipal Commissioner Johny Joseph on board.

Parekh, when reminded about the similar committees’ inability to get the work done, he said, they can only form committees’ while it’s the job of government to begin the work.

Citing areas where action is must, he said, they too are waiting for action on the Urban Land Ceiling Act, the housing policy and transit housing before redeveloping slums etc.

According to highly placed source, this time, a plan conceived real estate builder is eyeing prime real estate offered by redeveloping 16,000 buildings that pay a repair cess to the government.

There were disagreements too on some of the plans that were discussed earlier.

But, Developer Mofatraj Munot, chairman of the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry, which is one of the proposed federation partners, admitted that they had expressed reservations on some points, but there is no disagreement on the need for planning.

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