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Mumbai: Bigger homes, smaller futures? Elphinstone families raise livelihood concerns

As Elphinstone residents face relocation, official says they are being given flats worth nearly three times their surrendered shops; but families fear losing livelihoods even if property values rise

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Plot 3/51 at Lalbaug’s Chivda Galli in Parel, an address residents said they were unable to trace while verifying MMRDA’s transit housing list. File Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

Plot 3/51 at Lalbaug’s Chivda Galli in Parel, an address residents said they were unable to trace while verifying MMRDA’s transit housing list. File Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

Residents facing displacement from the Elphinstone redevelopment zone have alleged financial loss and unfair rehabilitation terms, but Additional Collector Shivaji Davbhat has defended the process, saying the flats being offered are significantly more valuable than the properties surrendered and that authorities are working to ensure no beneficiary is treated unfairly.

Shops vs flats Value dispute

Residents
>> Shops taken, homes given
>> Loss of income feared

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