4 min readMumbaiFeb 6, 2026 07:55 PM IST
First published on: Feb 6, 2026 at 07:55 PM IST
A day after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation served notices calling for action against SRA officials and halt of work on transit camps on a Worli land parcel reserved for a sewage treatment plant, the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) asked the civic body to take over possession of the STP reserved plot while also issuing directives to demolish the transit camp. However, officials from SRA maintained that with no construction underway by the SRA developer, it is the BMC which is undertaking construction work over the plot for an upcoming bridge.
Earlier on February 5, the BMC in a letter said that seven transit camp buildings (1 to 7) have been approved by the G/South’s executive engineer (EE) of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority on the Worli plot. According to senior officials, two major sewer lines pass through the land wherein sewerage flow has been impacted owing to the construction activity.
Deeming the approval by SRA for the transit camp ‘illegal’, additional municipal commissioner, Ashwini Joshi on Thursday directed chief engineer (sewerage operations) to lodge a criminal complaint against the EE (G/South), D B Patil for illegal permissions granted to the transit camp. Meanwhile, in a notice issued by the assistant municipal commissioner of G/South ward, the BMC also directed the SRA to stop all construction activity on the site.
In response to the notice, the SRA on Friday handed over the contested plot, sprawling over 17,756 square metres, to the BMC appealing them to take over the possession of the STP reservation plot. Further, the SRA also revoked permissions from the developers carrying out transit camp works for failing to obtain NOC from MOEF as well as for not submitting NOC to the land-owning authority, BMC. The SRA has directed the developers to immediately demolish the unauthorised transit tenement building constructed on the civic land.
For its part, the SRA maintains that the agency had previously filed an FIR against the developer as well as issued notice under Section 53(1) of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1996 in August 2025. “While we had previously granted them approvals for transit camp on the plot, we had revoked those permissions as well as issued stop work notice to the transit camp building No. 1 to 7 as they had failed to procure permissions from the MOEF department as per the GOM notification. We had also lodged an FIR against the implementing agency in the local police station under the MRTP act,” said D B Patil, SRA executive engineer of G/South ward.
Amid the notices, SRA conducted a site visit at the Worli land parcel where it observed construction activity by the BMC bridge department.
“We conducted a site visit on Friday and noted that besides the transit camps which we have called to be demolished, no construction activity is underway on the plot by SRA. We observed that at present it is the BMC’s bridge department who is in fact carrying out work on the plot reserved for the STP plant. We observed machinery of the BMC’s bridge contractor present at site who is working on the elevated bridge connecting E Moses Road with the Anne Besant Road,” an SRA official told The Indian Express.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena corporator and group leader Amey Ghole on Friday wrote to the Chief Secretary seeking cancellation of deputation and independent inquiry against the SRA engineer for ‘alleged misuse of official position, contradictory actions and serious procedural irregularities’.
Amid the notices, SRA conducted a site visit at the Worli land parcel where it observed construction activity by the BMC bridge department. (File Photo) 
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