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ers and a staff of 400 for SPPL is underway. They have been direct- HOUSING FOR ALL WILL BE ACHIEVED IN ed to verify the eligibility of all 12 lakh slum families within the next six months. Each hutment will be entered into an annexure, which BY 2022 will result in preparing a Master n an interview to veteran journal- “We are confident that Maharashtra will achieve Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of List and create a credible data ist Dilip Chaware for this Special base which can be useful for all fu- Supplement, Shri Mehta outlined Housing for All by the year 2022,” according to Housing Minister, SHRI PRAKASH MEHTA ture purposes. This will cover the his mega plan for providing shel- ous agencies including MHADA, implemented, we will be able to slums which have come up to the Iter to all people in Maharashtra, SRA and MMRDA, who are direc- obtain at least one lakh units for year 2000. with special emphasis on the Mum- tors of SPPL, have been asked to public distribution. I have here in What about the slums which bai Metropolitan Region (MMR). ensure that no problems arise in my possession written offers to this are created after 2000? Will Shri Mehta is confident that implementing its various schemes. effect. All we have to do is to speed these people be also covered in Raigad district, adjoining Mumbai, Now, SPPL has received written up these schemes. the Housing for All plan? is emerging as the Most Favoured offers from leading private housing Most certainly. The difference Investment Destination in the agencies, pledging investments of 24x7 Control Room will be that they will be allotted country and is already planning to several hundred crores of rupees. for cessed buildings tenements on a rental basis for a meet its future demands. Shri Me- 15-year period at the end of which, Thus, there will not be any capital 23517423 and 23536945 hta is Guardian Minister for Raigad crunch for its working in the future. they can own them by paying a district, in addition to his responsi- nominal amount. This is feasible I am happy to know that The Hindustan Major projects will not be held up But how will you make the en- bility as Labour and Mines Minister for want of funding henceforth. tire process faster? and can be achieved by show- Times is coming up with a Special Supplement of Maharashtra. thorities. Working of all of them will You foresee emphasis on We have devised a system ing determination, in other words, be coordinated in such a manner on ‘MHADA – Affordable Housing for All’ Mumbai and MMR for housing whereby such schemes with public exercising political will. We are Excerpts from the interview :-- as to achieve the vision through lakhs of people. What would have purpose can be submitted to the busy formulating provisions for the on the occasion of Independence day, 2015. collective efforts. to be done to make it a reality? Chief Minister’s Office (CMO). All scheme. The target for Maharashtra to Construction of the units will As far as Mumbai itself is con- clearances will be issued through It is most heartening that de- Maharashtra Government has a vision of fulfil the vision of the Hon Prime be done through a PPP model, cerned, we will have to look at the CMO within a specified dead- velopers are coming forward to re- on government lands and with the providing housing for all. Affordable housing Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, of salt pan lands and No Develop- line. This will spare the develop- spond to our efforts. Housing for All, will require creation involvement of different sections ment Zones through a different ers from running from pillar to post Will you make any special is our priority. I hope that the articles and of 20 lakh units, out of which about engaged in housing activity. At pre- perspective. According to my in- and spending money on obtaining plans for Mumbai? sent, there are several schemes interviews published in this Supplement will be 11 lakh will be in the MMR w