Speaking about the recently appointed one-member committee of Johny Joseph, he said that the report on Patra Chawl was expected within the next 15 days.. While speaking to the media, he assured that redevelopment of Patra Chawl would start very soon and hurdles in the project would be removed as soon as possible. He also spoke about incomplete projects of the MHADA cooperative housing society. Mr Awhad was speaking about projects involving MHADA, housing societies and developers that were pending and incomplete for various reasons.On Thursday, Mr Awhad visited Patra Chawl in Goregaon, which is being redeveloped.

State housing minister stainless steel bushings Jitendra Awhad Thursday announced that 10 per cent of MHADA houses would be reserved for the state police henceforth. He also said that hereon, all details of developers would be checked.He said that 10 per cent homes would be reserved for the police. He assured the people that they would get their pending home rents as well.

Many cooperative housing projects had not been completed because of the incompetence of developers.MHADA should have the power to check the agreement between developers and MHADA cooperative societies and it was necessary to introduce a provision for the same, he said.

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The survey has started after centre’s notification to exclude salt pans from the wetlands category.Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has started surveying city’s salt pan lands to study if it’s feasible for building affordable housing.”. Once we determine the pockets available for Custom Aluminum CNC machining parts for sale development and then plans will be prepared.The Union Environment Ministry had tweaked the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) rules in 2017. As per the state governments estimate, there 2,177 hectares of salt pan lands spread across the city in areas including Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Bhandup, Mulund, Mira Road, Dahisar and Naigaon-Vasai etc. There are certain lands which are under encroachment and certain under use as roads or other uses.

As per the new rules, salt pan lands is no more defined as wetland. So we were asked to prepare a master plan for the entire area. "We were told to survey the entire salt pan land a year back, earlier deducted the wetlands assuming that no construction can be done, but there is some clarification now which says that restrictions cannot be applied in salt pan cases. Also there are litigations on some lands,” added Mr Madan.The salt pan lands were initially recognised under the wetlands category, which made it subject to various restrictions. But now, with no restrictions, MMRDA is hoping that more land will be available for their housing project. He further said, "Thus, deducting all that, we are looking for pockets of land where construction can be made for housing. So accordingly the process is on, to see the entire area once again,” said UPS Madan, Metropolitan Commissioner."First, we are going to take the survey to determine which of the lands have the potential for construction.

It will take two to three months for this process to complete, post which we will go back to the government to convey them about the availability of land.

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