Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday stated the agreement for Dharavi redevelopment will certainly be “taken back” from the Adani team if it stops working to adhere to guidelines of the state federal government.
Speaking at the India Today conclave, he shot down claims of the resistance celebrations on the task and insisted the tender was provided to the Adani team as it was the highest possible prospective buyer.
On Wednesday, Mumbai Congress principal and Lok Sabha MP Varsha Gaikwad had actually declared 80 percent of shares of Dharavi Redevelopment Project Private Limited (DRPPL), which is helming the enthusiastic remodeling, were held by Adani team, while the state federal government had the staying 20 percent.
Gaikwad, that was Dharavi MLA prior to being chosen to the Lok Sabha in the 2024 basic surveys, additionally affirmed the redevelopment task was property’s greatest rip-off.
Queried on Gaikwad’s cases, Fadnavis stated, “The Dharavi redevelopment plan is under the state government’s control. A principal secretary rank officer will be the chief of DRP. It will draft development control rules. Based on these rules, the actual development will occur. Unless these rules are approved by the state Urban Development Department, the company (DRPPL) cannot start work.”
“Adani (group) will have to do whatever the government wants. If they do not do it, we will take back the contract from them,” stated Fadnavis, that was state real estate priest when billionaire Gautam Adani’s team won the proposal for redeveloping Dharavi, among the globe’s densest urban spreads.”
The opposition parties are either not studying the issue properly or are more interested in politicising it, the senior BJP leader said.
He said the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government failed to cap Transferable Development Rights (TDR).
This omission would have granted the redeveloping entity in Dharavi unrestricted authority to stockpile these rights and realise excessive profits through their sale to other real estate developers in the city, Fadnavis alleged.
“It was our federal government which placed a cap on TDR prices. It can not go beyond 90 percent of the prepared reckoner prices. We additionally gave a center called electronic system where information of the readily available TDR will certainly be shown. We have actually made the procedure clear,” Fadnavis insisted.
Published 26 September 2024, 19:47 IST
