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Behrampada's slums are shooting skywards
Updated On: 13 December, 2009 07:31 AM IST | | Shailesh Bhatia
Rs 10 lakh for a home in the slums and 15 lakh for an office here; raging fires don't deter Behrampada's brave from slumming it high, with huts going up to five storeys and the entire structure measuring 60 feet
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Rs 10 lakh for a home in the slums and 15 lakh for an office here; raging fires don't deter Behrampada's brave from slumming it high, with huts going up to five storeys and the entire structure measuring 60 feet
It is not only the skyscrapers, towering above the ground, which are changing the city's skylineu00a0-- huts mushrooming in Behrampada, Bandra East, too have aspired to grow vertically and today many stand up five stories high, and a single 10x10 feet room is commanding a whopping price of Rs 10 lakh in sale value. And that's the minimum quotation if one wants to buy the hut for residential purposes. Huts sold for commercial purposes cost a minimum of Rs 15 lakh.
These huts of single brick walls can be considered either marvels of engineering, with no architect drawings or foundationu00a0-- or simply disasters waiting to happen, even as the fire brigade and the BMC go about warning residents to vacate dilapidated buildings. The slum skyscrapers stand upto 60 feet tall while a regular three-storey building measures only upto 45 feet.
It is not only the skyscrapers, towering above the ground, which are changing the city's skylineu00a0-- huts mushrooming in Behrampada, Bandra East, too have aspired to grow vertically and today many stand up five stories high, and a single 10x10 feet room is commanding a whopping price of Rs 10 lakh in sale value. And that's the minimum quotation if one wants to buy the hut for residential purposes. Huts sold for commercial purposes cost a minimum of Rs 15 lakh.
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A few new storey (covered in plastic sheets) coming up at Behrampada slum PIC/SHAILESH BHATIA |
These huts of single brick walls can be considered either marvels of engineering, with no architect drawings or foundationu00a0-- or simply disasters waiting to happen, even as the fire brigade and the BMC go about warning residents to vacate dilapidated buildings. The slum skyscrapers stand upto 60 feet tall while a regular three-storey building measures only upto 45 feet.
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