MCGM targets multiple realty projects

In its attempt to provide affordable housing units to the urban poor, the Planning Committee of Municipal Corporation Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has recently decided to increase the total area available for low-cost housing units in the city on an area of about 787.28 hectare in its Development Plan for 2034. The Revised Draft Development Plan 2034 (RDDP 2034) had earlier provided for 707.13 hectare of land for affordable housing in the form of reservations, the civic body said in a release. In fact, affordable housing has now been termed as social housing meant for economically weaker section, lower income group, mid-income group, and also includes rental housing. Going by the large number of requests from citizens, the committee has termed erstwhile no development zone (NDZ) lands, those do not fall in natural areas (NA), with unauthorized protected occupants termed as Special Development Zone I (SDZ I) land. For these lands, amended provision of slum rehabilitation 33(10) has been made applicable. The panel has also suggested that the successful online lottery system of disposal of Maharashtra Housing & Area Development Authority (MHADA) tenements could become the basis for MCGM to formulate its scheme of tenement disposal, it added.