Khadse said that the policy of allotting free FSIs to builders had led to an enormous uncalculated growth of the city, which in turn had put pressure on the infrastructure. “If the city keeps growing at this frantic pace, soon there will be a day when residents will take to the streets demanding basic amenities like water and open space,” Khadse warned.
Citing examples of uncalculated growth, the leader of opposition said, “Nearly 70 towers are coming up in Nana Chowk. But where is the infrastructure to support such development in so small a space? This is the situation in almost all parts of the city.”
Khadse said that local people and sons of soil were being pushed out of the city by the builder lobby.
“People from old buildings and chawls are being wooed with bigger homes in modern towers. But in the end, many of them do not get what they had been promised. Original residents of places like Lower Parel, Worli, Girgaum and Grant Road have been forced to shift to far-off suburbs like Dahisar and Thane,” he said.
Khadse said that the Mhada and the SRA were at the epicentres of housing scams. He added that slum redevelopment schemes were being plotted on land reserved for recreational grounds, and demanded that a committee comprising either retired judges or all party members be set up to examine all SRA projects.
Khadse added, “The government has also planned to hand over acres of prime land earmarked for police colonies to private builders.”
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