Mumbai being a water-bound strip of land, there is an acute shortage of land to develop further.
These are some new stories that could be game-changers..
a) In the news recently we had an article on the "Centre may unlock Mumbai’s salt pan land for housing"
Union urban development minister Kumari Selja said, on Tuesday, that the Centre was working on measures to free up acres of salt pan land in the city for housing.
Mumbai has 5,000 acres of salt pan land in the eastern and western suburbs. Freeing up this land could also impact realty rates, the minister said. “When there is supply, prices are bound to fall.”
Environmentalists, however, fear the worst - since saltpans are excellent flood barriers. With Global warming a reality - would Mumbai be left at the mercy of the rising seas?
b) A Panvel- Mankhurd metro Link.
This 30 Kms track could completely change the face of Mumbai-greater Mumbai-navi Mumbai. Mumbai would then be able to expand rapidly along the interiors.
With the cost of housing climbing over the last years beyond all sensible limits, we already see a strong surge of affordable housing coming up in the far-flung places.
If a metro railway comes in, then these far-flung places become possibilites for future mass housing.
Panvel is already developing strongly with large building projects underway. Like Virar on the Western line, Kalyan on the central line, Panvel will become the next hub - pushing the city's psychological bounderies to a new direction.
We really hope that "The City and Industrial Development Corporation" (Cidco) gets the necessary go ahead and the financial assistance from the Centre.
and then there are the same old stories...
The ruling Shiv Sena-BJP combine in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) pushed through the controversial proposal to give Rs 577 crore worth of road construction contracts to the same set of contractors who have been building Mumbai's roads for years.
According to some, the administration had tweaked and diluted the tender conditions so as to facilitate certain contractors to get the tender.
The eight contractors being given the contract are those who have been penalised for poor quality work.
Despite strong objection by the opposition party to the proposal and the clear signs of huge corruption,
the local Mumbaikars can do little but hope that the roads of next year to be better than this years!
These are some new stories that could be game-changers..
a) In the news recently we had an article on the "Centre may unlock Mumbai’s salt pan land for housing"
Union urban development minister Kumari Selja said, on Tuesday, that the Centre was working on measures to free up acres of salt pan land in the city for housing.
Mumbai has 5,000 acres of salt pan land in the eastern and western suburbs. Freeing up this land could also impact realty rates, the minister said. “When there is supply, prices are bound to fall.”
Environmentalists, however, fear the worst - since saltpans are excellent flood barriers. With Global warming a reality - would Mumbai be left at the mercy of the rising seas?
b) A Panvel- Mankhurd metro Link.
This 30 Kms track could completely change the face of Mumbai-greater Mumbai-navi Mumbai. Mumbai would then be able to expand rapidly along the interiors.
With the cost of housing climbing over the last years beyond all sensible limits, we already see a strong surge of affordable housing coming up in the far-flung places.
If a metro railway comes in, then these far-flung places become possibilites for future mass housing.
Panvel is already developing strongly with large building projects underway. Like Virar on the Western line, Kalyan on the central line, Panvel will become the next hub - pushing the city's psychological bounderies to a new direction.
We really hope that "The City and Industrial Development Corporation" (Cidco) gets the necessary go ahead and the financial assistance from the Centre.
and then there are the same old stories...
The ruling Shiv Sena-BJP combine in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) pushed through the controversial proposal to give Rs 577 crore worth of road construction contracts to the same set of contractors who have been building Mumbai's roads for years.
According to some, the administration had tweaked and diluted the tender conditions so as to facilitate certain contractors to get the tender.
The eight contractors being given the contract are those who have been penalised for poor quality work.
Despite strong objection by the opposition party to the proposal and the clear signs of huge corruption,
the local Mumbaikars can do little but hope that the roads of next year to be better than this years!