BJP Corporator stages one-day hunger strike demanding rehabilitation for slum dwellers
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator, Vinod Mishra on Tuesday staged a public demonstration at Malad (East) protesting the non allotment of houses to slum dwellers under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme and allegedly using poor raw materials in construction of the buildings.
In 2006, real estate firm Omkar Builders announced Janu Bhoye rehabilitation scheme for nearly 3,400 slum families. These families were evicted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for various development projects and were supposed to rehabilitate them in a building at the Kurar Village of the Malad (East) area. The real estate firm acquired lands from the BMC and various private owners for constructing the rehabilitation buildings.