Mumbai’s Slums Set For Cluster Redevelopment As Maharashtra Pushes Sewage Reuse Drive
October 09, 2025: In a major step toward sustainable urban transformation, the Maharashtra Cabinet has approved two key initiatives — a cluster-based redevelopment plan for Mumbai’s slums and a statewide Sewage Treatment and Reuse Policy, 2025. Together, these policies aim to modernise housing infrastructure and promote resource-efficient water management. Under the new cluster-based slum redevelopment […]
Maharashtra Approves Cluster-Based Slum Redevelopment Policy To Transform Mumbai’s Informal Settlements
October 08, 2025: The Maharashtra government has approved a new cluster-based slum redevelopment policy for Mumbai, marking a major step toward transforming the city’s informal settlements into planned urban communities. The decision, cleared by the state cabinet on October 7, envisions converting slum clusters spread over 50 acres or more into integrated housing projects with […]
Rethinking Mumbai’s Construction & Redevelopment: A Call For Systemic Urban Design
Roads have been dug up, dust is in the air, and rehabilitation projects are all around Mumbai, which now looks like a continuous construction zone. A developing city needs infrastructure and building upgrades, but the haphazard way these projects are carried out raises fundamental questions about long-term sustainability, efficiency, and planning. Even beyond the major […]
Mumbai’s Vertical Growth: Skyscrapers Rising, Challenges Mounting
Mumbai is seeing an unparalleled metamorphosis as the first quarter of the twenty-first century draws to a conclusion. Having been given to the English in 1665, this small port town has grown into a vast city in its 360th year. In 1925, Bombay’s skyline was characterised by mill chimneys on the lowlands and lush trees […]
Mumbai’s Redevelopment Push Creates Opportunities & Challenges
The Maharashtra government has started auditing 13,000 old and outdated buildings for possible reconstruction, which is expected to bolster Mumbai’s real estate market. In order to evaluate these “cessed” buildings—structures constructed prior to September 1969 for which Mhada receives a repair cess—the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) has hired structural specialists. To aid […]
Geeta Jain Eyes Cluster Development for Mira Bhayandar Housing ahead of Maharashtra Elections 2024
Redevelopment is a huge challenge in cities like Mira Bhayandar because of low margins and FSI. Dilapidated buildings that collapsed 12-15 years ago have yet to be renovated. Thane’s example of allotting dwellings to everyone from slums to illegal chawls taught me that decaying buildings may be rehabilitated through cluster development plans. However, Narendra Mehta […]
Approx 150 Housing Societies in State Secure Cooperative Bank Loans for Self-Redevelopment
Approximately 150 housing societies in Pune, Mumbai, and Thane have received loans from cooperative banks for self-redevelopment. These housing societies could not carry out self-redevelopment work due to a lack of money. “The loans will now benefit the housing societies,” Deepak Taware, the state commissioner of cooperation and registrar of cooperative housing organisations, stated on […]
MHADA Building: Mumbai’s First Student Housing Project to be Located in Tardeo
For its first student housing project in the city, the Maharashtra government has identified a building in Tardeo that is controlled by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and contains tiny studio apartments. According to the state housing department’s additional chief secretary, Valsa Nair Singh, the project is a component of Maharashtra’s new […]
1.5L people in South Bombay living in MHADA’s trembling buildings
The family of Aarti Bhosale, who live in a 180-square-foot apartment on the fourth level of the Gharkul building in Byculla, which was developed by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), came dangerously close to death on July 22 when a slab crashed from the apartment above. I still get shivers when I […]
Redevelopment of Maharashtra Mantralaya to receive FSI of 5, fungible FSI of 35%: PWD
The Mantralaya building, the Maharashtra government’s administrative headquarters in Mumbai, is slated to undergo a massive renovation that would encompass the 55,000 square meter annexe building, ministers’ mansions, staff quarters, and adjacent gardens. An official from the project’s nodal agency, the Public Works Department (PWD), stated that the redevelopment project will gain from a Floor […]