The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has approved the construction of 9,500 homes of 300 sq. feet each for project affected people (PAP) in Mulund and Bhandup, by giving  credit notes (developers can use them to pay municipal taxes and premiums to the BMC) and transfer development rights (TDR) worth Rs 5,122 crore to builders. The BMC had earlier decided to pay Rs 1,610 crore to build 4,000 houses in Chembur and 108 in Dahisar in September but the Chembur project has still not progressed. While the Congress opposed the move to give a hefty amount to builders, this time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had no objections.

The civic body does not have enough houses to shift PAP. The BMC had initiated a plan to build 5,000 houses in each of the seven zones of the city for them. The plan was to build 35,000 such houses in the city and BMC had invited expressions of interest in 2019 in lieu of land and construction TDR, but it did not yield any result. In a bid to complete its pending infrastructure projects, the BMC decided to pay an additional R1,610 crore to build 4,108 houses, out of which construction on 4,000 was to start in Chembur in September. But in the current proposal in the improvement committee, the administration said that the Chembur project is still in primary stage and going forward at snail’s speed.