MHADA scheme for Malwani colony extended

MUMBAI, OCT 15: The Bombay High Court today extended the MHADA ownership scheme for the MHADA colony at Gaikwad Nagar, Malwani by two weeks to enable those interested to pay the ownership amount to the housing board. The occupants at this colony had earlier a deadline of October 8, following an earlier order of the court.

Following the arguments of the counsel for the petitioners, Peter Lobo, who had argued that the tenants were not interested in the new scheme but would pay for the ownership scheme under MHADA, the court had earlier directed that the scheme be reopened for those willing to be a part of the MHADA scheme. Lobo told the court that following this order, around 1,284 occupants of the total of 2,500 occupants had paid the money to MHADA and around 330 drafts of payment were ready, which had to be submitted to MHADA. The court today directed these payments to be made to the MHADA office and following his request directed that the scheme remain open for two more weeks for the rest of the others interested to join the MHADA scheme.

The matter will now be heard on November 18, 1999.