Latest Answer: @Pradyuman,
It is true. As per the members of 15 organizations that represent the residents, shop owners, stall-owners and slum dwellers on BDD Chawl land, ror the last 30 years, they have been seeking government approval to do the redevelopment on their own.
Latest Answer: Yes, tt present, there are 16000 tenements in the BDD chawls. The total rent paid by them to the PWD amounts to Rs 60 lakh every year. However, the PWD shells out 20 times that sum for annual maintenance of the chawls.
