Zameer inspects Mumbai SRA complex

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Housing and Minority Welf are Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan inspected the residential complex constructed by Mumbai Slum Rehabilitation Authority in a private-public partnership.

On Sunday, he viewed the residential complex constructed in Teachers Colony of Saibaba Nagar in Andheri East, Mumbai, and collected information.

On behalf of the Mumbai Slum Rehabilitation Authority, a slum dwellers cooperative society has been established and a residential complex is being constructed under an agreement with the contractor.

Fifty percent of the land has been given to the leasing company. Once the beneficiaries need a bank loan arrangement under the scheme, the contracting organization contacts the bank head and arranges it.

Apart from this, till the construction of a housing complex in the slum area, the organization will take the responsibility of shifting the slumdwellers elsewhere as well as pay rent for houses to live in temporarily.

On the same occasion, the Minister ordered a study on whether a similar model can be implemented in the Slum Development Board, and Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation projects in Karnataka.

The Minister invited officials of the Mumbai Slum Rehabilitation Authority to visit Karnataka. Housing Department Secretary Naveen Raj Singh, former MP Harban Singh, authority officers Ashish Chaudhary, Balaji Munde, Abhay Ram, and others were present.

The minister also visited Shirke’s cement precast center and residential complex in the Taloja area of Navi Mumbai.