BMC grants 1 lakh sq ft building rights to private developer for existing public road
Raising allegations of wrongdoing against the chief minister, BJP’s former MP Kirit Somaiya, on Friday, labelled the entire episode as a “multi-crore FSI fraud committed by the Thackeray sarkar to facilitate the developer”. He has demanded a probe in the matter. December 12, 2020 4:08:19 am
The BMC is incurring cost to create quarantines, isolation wards, purchasing equipment and medicine. (File)
The Shiv Sena-controlled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has offered a private builder development rights worth over one lakh square feet in lieu of an existing public road in use since 1914. Official documents show that Mumbai civic commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal had granted “in-principle” approval to the proposal on September 26, 2020, following an opinion submitted by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led Law and Judiciary department of the Mahara