Cluster projects: 22 cleared,20 pending

“No meeting was held for a long time and now with the present municipal commissioner being transferred,all projects are likely to be in a limbo for a couple of months,” said an official of the BMC’s building proposals department. Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak,who will chair his last meeting with the panel on Wednesday,said: “There were not many cases,so we didn’t have a meeting for long.”

Of the 22 proposals cleared,12 are awaiting the state government’s final sanction while 10 will be forwarded to the government soon. Among the 20 new proposals are projects by small-time developers who wish to take the benefit of a higher vertical limit when clusters of buildings in a minimum area of one acre are taken up for redevelopment. These developers will get to profit by selling an area 55 to 80 per cent of that used for rehabilitating tenants.

The new proposals include three projects by Omkar Developers at Sion-Chunnabatti,one each by developer Irfan Shaikh at Saat Rasta and Mazgaon,two by developer Chetan Shah at Mazgaon,one each by Shreepati Developers at Dadar East and Nana Chowk,two by Haji Kasam Agbotwala Charities on Grant Road and one by developer Jignesh Gala at Wadala. Many projects have been proposed by developers in congested Bhuleshwar,including four by Rohan Developers,two by developer Yogesh Shah and another two by Battad Developers.