November 06, 2017

 

The residents of 3,000-odd housing societies built on government land across Mumbai are not amused with the advertisement blitzkrieg tomtoming the achievements of the Devendra Fadnavis administration, which completed three years in office on October 31.

While the government, through these advertisements, is trying to project how people are happy with its various initiatives and how it has fulfilled promises like loan waiver for farmers, the residents point out that they are still waiting for the state to frame rules to implement its own decision of making housing societies freehold owners of the land on which the buildings stand. The delay, the residents claim, is hampering redevelopment of the housing complexes.

There are over 20,000 such societies spread across the state. The state government allotted land to many cooperative housing societies in and around Mumbai between 1950s and 1980s to promote "cooperation movement" in the state. However, these societies were not given status of class I (freehold) occupants of the land and instead classified as class II.

The class II occupants have to abide by some regulations like housing complexes must be built on the plots within three years from allotment; if any member of the society sells a flat, the owner must take prior permission from the government and pay transfer fee to government; if the society wants to sell its land to another person, then it must take permission from the government and so on.

However, the housing societies have been making representations with various state governments to make these plots freehold since 2011.

Finally in April 2016, the state government issued a notification, accepting the demand and announced to make the housing societies class I occupants of the land on which they are located. Subsequently, the state government amended the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code 1966 in the monsoon session of the state assembly.

"A committee was also appointed under the principal secretary of the revenue department to decide the premium amount to be charged from these societies. More than one-and-a-half years have passed since then, but no report has been submitted to the government by the committee. The rules are yet to be framed," said Salil Rameshchandra, Chairman of Shivsrushti Housing Societies Association, which has 31 housing societies under it. As such, the buildings continue to remain in a dilapidated state with no scope of redevelopement.

He further said, "We met chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in June this year in this regard. We were assured that rules will be framed within a fortnight but four months have passed and nothing has happened."

Text message and phone calls to Manukumar Shrivastav, principal secretary of revenue department, went unanswered. When contacted, revenue minister Chandrakant Patil said, "I am travelling and I won’t able to comment on the issue unless I see the file."

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