Summary:
In a first, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) will be hiring the services of a project management consultancy (PMC) to get the details of illegal extensions carried out on plots belonging to them. Earlier the job was given to the internal Mhada staff, says Uday Samant, the president of Mhada, but because of limited staff, the work was getting prolonged. He says during demolition even requests from politicians wouldn't be heard on illegal structures. Mhada which is meant for public housing now lacks space in the city to construct homes that it can sell via lottery on Tuesday, Mhada decided that it will like private developers redevelop these colonies of theirs, which either go to private developers or for self redevelopment. They believe that seeing the failure of private developers in the redevelopment stream they will have an upper hand..