Slums to go for Satellite Mapping in Mumbai

CM Ashok Chavan has announced that there will a third-party audit of all the slums in the city every two years. This step is being taken to check their proliferation. Apart from this, he has not mentioned anything about the already prevalent woeful conditions of the slums.

He said that the migration cannot be stopped as it is guaranteed as a fundamental right in the Constitution. “We’ll conduct a third-party audit of slums every two years. We’ll survey the slums and go for satellite mapping. Local officials will be made accountable for proliferation of slums in the area under their jurisdiction...a special cell will be created in the housing department to monitor slums.”

He reiterated the government would develop Koliwadas and merge the three categories of old buildings (those built before 1940; those between 1940 and 1950; and those between 1950 and 1969) and grant uniform FSI for their reconstruction. At the moment, in Mumbai most of these old buildings are in dire straits and every monsoon, at least one or two of such buildings collapse due to further rain damagekilling many.