It’s an established fact that generous gains, and not generosity, draw developers in the city to slum rehabilitation projects. Cutthroat competition to grab major Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) schemes has engendered countless court cases and ruthless rivalries among individuals. But, a pressing proposal to moot major changes in the existing situation by the state administration has failed to take off in the last eight months.

The lassitude on part of the Democratic Front (DF) government in the state is striking, since, soon after taking over as CM, Prithviraj Chavan gave a call for transparency in SRA projects ‘where developers make astronomical profits by usurping prime pieces of government land.’