Mumbai, Oct 14
Maharashtra Cabinet on Monday cleared yet another land allotment for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. The cabinet has approved to handover of around 124.3 acres of land of Deonar dumping ground for the construction of homes to residents affected by the project.
This is the third allotment of land in the last month for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. In the last cabinet meeting held on October 10, the state cleared the proposal to allot around 140 acres of land in Madh to resettle the Dharavi residents. In a cabinet meeting on September 30, the government approved 255.0 acres of ecologically fragile salt-pan land to lease to build houses for Dharavi residents. In June 2023, the state government approved the handing over of around 21 acres of Kurla dairy land for the said project. The opposition criticized the MahaYuti government over the land allotments. Meanwhile, the cabinet gave approval for several initiatives, including the Career Advancement Scheme for Teachers in Social Work Colleges, the Damanganga One-way Godavari River Linking Scheme, and revised approval for the Ashti lift Irrigation Scheme. Additionally, there was administrative approval for the Shanidevgaon Barrage of Vaijapur, a transfer of State Agriculture Corporation Land to the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, and the allotment of land at Panchpakhadi area for Thane Municipal Corporation's administrative building. Furthermore, land at Kidkali was allotted at no cost for the Hybrid Skill University.