MHADA to provide 11 months' rent in one installment to tenants in Mumbai’s BDD Chawl

MHADA to provide 11 months' rent in one installment to tenants in Mumbai’s BDD Chawl Redevelopment Project

To make it easier for tenants in old Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) Chawls to vacate their premises and to encourage more tenants to cooperate, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has decided to provide eligible tenants with 11 months' rent in one installment.

The Authority said that in the BDD Chawl Redevelopment Project, eligible tenants, who have not opted for transit camp accommodations provided by MHADA, will receive this rent. The BDD Chawl Redevelopment Project is spread over 92 acres of land with redevelopment work progressing rapidly at Worli, Naigaon, and NM Joshi Marg-Lower Parel.

Under this redevelopment project, eligible tenants are provided accommodations in transit camps by MHADA. However, due to a shortage of available units at transit camps, tenants are given the option to receive rent, instead.

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“Eligible residential tenants, who do not prefer transit accommodations are being given Rs 25,000 per month as rent by MHADA. Similarly, non-residential tenants also receive Rs 25,000 per month as compensation. Initially, tenants were given 11 months' rent in advance and it was decided that after this instalment they will be given rent on a monthly basis. However, tenants requested that the rent be given in a lump sum for the next 11 months as well. Responding to this demand, MHADA vice-president and chief executive officer Sanjeev Jaiswal approved this proposal,” the Authority said in a statement.

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This policy will continue until tenants are relocated to the rehabilitation units. Eligible tenants, verified by the concerned executive engineer of the project, will receive 11 months' rent in one installment.

The Authority noted that if the stay extends beyond 11 months, the tenants will receive the corresponding rent for the duration of their stay. The rent will be provided based on the actual duration of stay, not just a blanket 11 months.

The computerised lottery for allocation of rehabilitation units to eligible tenants in the Worli BDD Chawl Redevelopment Project will be held in the last week of June, the Authority said.

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The British had constructed the 207 BDD chawls in 1920, as low-cost housing for mill workers, dock workers, civic and other government employees in Mumbai. The chawls are spread over 92 acres and comprise 207 ground-plus-3-storey buildings, having 16,557 flats measuring 160 sq ft. The Maharashtra government has taken up the redevelopment of the same with the help of MHADA.