SGNP slum rehabilitation first phase to be completed in November

MUMBAI: The first phase of relocation and rehabilitation of slumdwellers of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivli, will be completed next month. Five years after the government undertook the shifting of the slum-dwellers following a Bombay high court order, it will have shifted 11,500 slum-dwellers . "The last 1,600 families of the first phase have already been given the keys to their homes at Chandivali. They have been given a month to move out. On November 1, we shall begin demolition of their huts if they have not already done so,'' said Sunil Limaye, chief conservator of forests, SGNP. The dwellings are spread over Dahisar, Kandivli, Malad and Mulund.

Another 13,000 people still remain to be relocated. "It is the Slum Rehabilitation Authority that has been providing the flats to eligible slum-dwellers . For the remaining they have promised to give flats either at Chandivali or at Mankhurd. The SRA has indicated that these will be completed by 2013,'' he said.

On November 1, the forest department will not only demolish the huts of those relocated but also take up the construction of the boundary wall as ordered by the high court. "So far we have completed 26km and another 14km remain to be completed . Wherever we demolish the huts we are taking up the boundary wall construction. The presence of huts is a hurdle in completing the task,'' he said. Last year, CM Prithviraj Chavan had stayed the construction of two approved 25-storey buildings at Chandivali to rehabilitate slumdwellers after the Nivara Hakk Suraksha Samiti led by actor and former MP Shabana Azmi brought to his notice the inhuman conditions in which the relocated slum-dwellers lived. Though the present buildings are seven-storey high, nonworking lifts and poor water supply has meant that school children have to make several trips to take water to their high-rise homes.

Civic activist and architect P K Das pointed out how distortion of the original plans was resulting in slum-like conditions in their new dwelling places with open spaces encroached upon, promised amenities not being provided and poor quality of construction making the flats non-habitable . Das said Nivara Hakk had demanded an inquiry into how such high-rises were being allowed for slum rehabilitation and the chief minister had agreed to it. "We want public participation as was done initially in Phase-I so that homes are properly designed, public amenities provided and to ensure quality," he said.

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