Mumbai: Stung by Congress’s rout in Mumbai’s Lok Sabha constituencies that are dominated by slums, the Prithviraj Chavan-led government in Maharashtra has made a final and desperate attempt to woo the slum dwellers, considered to be a loyal votebank of the party for decades, ahead of the October 15 Assembly elections.
Just three days before the model code of conduct came into force, the Congress-NCP government issued a notification declaring its intent to undertake in-situ rehabilitation or on-site rehabilitation of the 90,000-odd families settled on the fringes of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The rehabilitation of the slum dwellers in the flats, now proposed to be built on the airport land, has been a long-standing demand of the residents, whose stiff opposition to being moved elsewhere has until now stymied all plans to free up the 276 acres they occupy within the severely space-constrained airport.
15/09/14 Manasi Phadke/Indian Express
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Just three days before the model code of conduct came into force, the Congress-NCP government issued a notification declaring its intent to undertake in-situ rehabilitation or on-site rehabilitation of the 90,000-odd families settled on the fringes of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The rehabilitation of the slum dwellers in the flats, now proposed to be built on the airport land, has been a long-standing demand of the residents, whose stiff opposition to being moved elsewhere has until now stymied all plans to free up the 276 acres they occupy within the severely space-constrained airport.
15/09/14 Manasi Phadke/Indian Express
