The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), which has extended the tender date three times, has not been able to draw any bidders for the project, which is another setback in the long-delayed rehabilitation of the PMGP Colony in Jogeshwari.
The Mumbai Board of MHADA has revised the tender and reprinted it in an effort to advance the project and maybe land a developer. Established in 1990 under a Central Government initiative, the 27,725 square metre PMGP Colony in Jogeshwari is made up of 17 buildings that house 942 residential apartments and 41 non-residential spaces.
These structures have gotten so bad over time that they are no longer safe to live in. The housing association first named Shripati Group as the developer after realising the urgent need for reconstruction; nevertheless, the project’s failure to move forward for more than ten years resulted in the developer’s appointment being cancelled.
Recent structural evaluations have shown that the structures are unsafe, emphasising the urgent need for reconstruction. In order to solve this, MHADA has given some inhabitants temporary housing in transit camps, but a large number of them continue to live in the dilapidated structures. The redevelopment proposal was first put out to bid a few months ago, and it was based on the C&D framework and the successful Motilal Nagar project.
MHADA declared on Saturday that it had revised and republished the tender, among other changes. The redevelopment’s future is contingent upon the Mumbai Board’s top official obtaining a response to this new tender. The state government will have to intervene to decide what to do next if no proposals are submitted.
Source: The Bridge Chronicle
