26 FIRs filed against unscrupulous real estate developers

MIDC have been lodged Twenty three FIRs at the Rabale MIDC police station errant real estate developers, who have used the government land to cheat poor or low income group buyers in Digha, whereas; another three FIRs were lodged against illegal buildings in Digha and case was filed by Brajesh Mishra, a social activist, under MRTP (Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act) act.  Till now police has arrested four of the accused builders and have sent them to jail after high court slammed the authorities for their lax attitude.

Apart from that the demolition drive which was aims to clear 90 illegal buildings as they were on the land of MIDC, has still pending because residents of these buildings are in the process to obtain stay orders from the court. The two buildings which were targeted by demolition team of MIDC are; Moreshwar Apartment and Ambika Building have got stay till December 31, 2015 and all of these things are delaying the action of MIDC. According to P B Chavan, the Executive Engineer of MIDC, “Our demolition team is ready with action plan to take proper strike, and we have served the seven-day notice to the building owners, residents, but they have ample of time to seek the court’s help and, derailing our plan. Ans it has happen more than once since December 1, 2015 when we were supposed to start demolition, but now at this point of time we are unsure when to start the drive.

It is reported that three buildings were razed in October, 2015 by MIDC, rendering over a 100 families homeless. On the other side a coordination committee, which comprise of CIDCO, NMMC and MIDC officials, has also been constituted as per court order with an aim to verify property documents and FIRs allegation before demolish them.

Smart Cities in India

Recently, CM Fadnavis informed that 10 cities of Maharashtra would compete with other states to bag the ‘Smart City’ projects which meant to get the more advanced and well developed urban infrastructure.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis stated that there are 10 cities from our state which is being nominated for the Centre’s “Smart Cities” project and we will compete with the entries of other states to bag funds from central to develop more advanced and developed urban infrastructure. Edged out emerging towns from the developed cities of Maharashtra are in the race to bag the funds from central. However; the name of shortlisted cities are; Mumbai, Kalyan – Dombivali, Navi Mumbai, Thane from MMR (Mumbai Metropolitan region), Pune, Solapur, Pimpri – Chinchwad from Western Maharashtra, Nagpur and Amravati from Vidarbha, Nashik from North Maharashtra and Aurangabad from Marathwada.

Recently, Central Government of India, has identified development of new towns close to those cities which are well developed because its key behind the smart city initiative where central government will contribute Rs 50 crore each year towards the smart city project. According to Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India there are lacks of infrastructure and basic amenities in the new emerging towns of Maharashtra and due to that soon CM will announce next plan for development, which will focus on the urban areas or Maharashtra. This report observed that out of 36 none of the town has even the basic service level benchmarks for solid waste management, sewage management and water supply, however; the audit was for the period of 2011 to 2014. According to CAG report, water supplied in 50 per cent of the audited towns are between 25 to 69 litres per day per person, however; according to government norms it should be between 70 to 70 litres per day per person. It was observed that due to loss from distribution system, treatment plans, reduced efficiency of water the problem of irregular water supply comes in existence.

Almost there is no town which found to be segrating municipal waste; the more CAG added that the numbers of towns are not even authorized by the state pollution for the waste disposal facilities. However; the CAG has also identified irregularities in the main irrigation projects in all over the state and there are many mini projects which don’t have approved master plan.

If you are noticing the increase in number of visitors at a property fair in Navi Mumbai these days, then you should consider it a the boom in property market in Navi Mumbai because the rates of residential apartments in Navi Mumbai are really rising. This is happening mainly due to the Navi Mumbai airport project. With the airport, Navi Mumbai is becoming a self-contained and complete city. Soon it will have a world class infrastructure. Not only from Mumbai, but people from other areas such as Pune are making Navi Mumbai their new home. This proves that Navi Mumbai has become now a commerce and education hub and is attracting many home buyers.

Property rates in Navi Mumbai are now almost same as that of their counterparts in the western suburbs. If you see, developers of Nerul to Kharghar projects have increased the rates of their premium projects equivalent to that generally between Goregaon and Kandivli. Also keeping in mind that Panvel is the last residential area in Navi Mumbai and the beginning of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway,a lot of action is expected around Panvel and the surrounding areas.  Kamothe and Kalamboli are two major markets which have seen spill over residential demand especially for 1 bedroom houses from Kharghar.

 For the past many years land in Navi Mumbai areas such as Ulwe, Airoli, Kamothe, Kalamboli, Panvel, Belapur has been gaining values. The rates in these areas are already minimum 25 per cent more than the norm. not only that, builders have their own reasons for increased rates like high input costs such as high land costs, higher funding costs; skyrocketing cost of material and labor.