Amnesty scheme to address SRA’s annexure 2 concerns
State Housing Minister Atul Save on Tuesday announced in the Assembly that the government will come up with an amnesty scheme to ensure that names of new owners buying huts from existing dwellers get registered in annexure 2 of slum rehabilitation. The move comes amid the fast-approaching state polls.
Save said that a high-level meeting will be convened in this regard when the House is in session. Annexure 2 comprises a list of eligible and ineligible slum dwellers. According to the existing practice, the names of the new owners don't get registered in annexure 2, thus leading to major confusion in various Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) projects across the city.
The minister was replying to a question raised by BJP MLA Ashish Shelar during a calling attention motion. Underlining that many SRA projects have been stalled for over two decades in Mumbai, Shelar said, “After the promulgation of annexure 2, there was no provision to accept transfer of hutments in the name of the new owner.”
The MLA further said that many people had to sell their hutments for personal reasons, but the hutments have not got registered in the names of the new owners. He questioned that if the hutment could be sold before finalising annexure 2 and also after completion of the scheme, why it can't be sold when the work is in progress.
“What is the fault of the slum dweller if the project gets delayed,” Shelar questioned, demanding that the state government must change this rule.
Once annexure 2 is promulgated, transfers are not accepted. Even the competent authority does not have the right to alter it Ashish Shelar