Stalled Manora MLA hostel plan changes hands, goes to PWD
ByShruti GanapatyeShruti Ganapatye / Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 13:12 IST
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Its redevelopment under NBCC stalled earlier this year due to lack of CZMP; high-level panel feels progress was slow.
The Maharashtra government has entrusted the reconstruction of Manora MLA Hostel in Nariman Point to the Public Works Department (PWD) instead of the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC), a central public sector undertaking. The decision comes after the reconstruction work halted earlier this year due to technical reasons.
Built between 1990 and 1994, Manora is a complex of four 14-storeyed towers (A to D), with 303 rooms each. In 2017, a ceiling slab had collapsed in Tower D, forcing the PWD and the MMRDA to hasten the redevelopment plan. By 2018, all towers were in a dilapidated condition, with countless bamboo props supporting the rooms. Over 175 MLAs refused to move out of the dangerous structur