Those dreaming of a home in Mumbai can now look to the BMC with great hope, as the civic body is planning to launch its own housing scheme. Under this project, the BMC will construct houses on its vacant plots and give them out on rent.
Standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale said, “The civic body has several vacant plots, which get encroached upon if there is no development. It has been decided to use these plots for a housing scheme on the lines of Mhada. Since the-se tenements will be given on rent, they will help in reducing the increasing prices of houses.”
A study group will be soon formed to suggest ways to implement this scheme. Then, based on these suggestions, the houses will be constructed. Some of the other civic corporations in the country have successfully implemented this concept of constructing houses and giving them on rent, said Mr Shewale.
Apart from this, architects for slum development, a museum in the memory of deceased Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and a gymkhana for common people are some of the new suggestions in the BMC’s annual budget for the year 2013-14. The budget was passed in the civic standing committee on Wednesday.
“Additions worth `215 crore have been made to the budget presented earlier,” said Mr Shewale.