With the Lok Sabha and state meeting polls in 2024 drawing close to, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) authorities in Maharashtra goes all-out to woo the highly effective slum-dweller vote financial institution in Mumbai. The state authorities has determined to allot flats in slum redevelopment schemes at Rs 2.5 lakh to residents of shanties which have come up between 2000 and 2011. It is estimated that it will cowl round 1.6-1.8 million individuals as their slums are redeveloped within the coming years. Slum-dwellers whose homes had been constructed earlier than 2000 are legally protected and eligible totally free housing. Many are housed in 300 sq. ft flats below Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) tasks.
Source: www.indiatoday.in