The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/brihanmumbai-municipal-corporation--articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation</a> (BMC) has finally decided to pay R13.23 crore to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) for land for a hospital at Kannamwar Nagar in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/vikhroli-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Vikhroli East</a>.
The civic body has decided to redevelop the 100-bed Krantiveer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Hospital into a 500-bed super-speciality hospital.
A BMC official told mid-day, &ldquo;We received a letter from MHADA in March. They are demanding Rs 13.23 crore to grant a no-objection certificate to allow redevelopment. This includes the cost of land and other fees. We have decided to pay. The process will be completed soon. mid-day has often highlighted the issue of delay in hospital redevelopment.
Additional Municipal Commissioner Dr Sanjeev Kumar stated, &ldquo;We have decided to redevelop the hospital. The process is unfolding.&rdquo;
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Another official, meanwhile, said, &ldquo;We have decided to use MHADA land that is adjacent to the existing hospital building at Kannamwar Nagar.&rdquo;
The BMC closed the 100-bed hospital in 2018 as the building had been declared dilapidated. The facility was shifted to a maternity home in Tagore Nagar. However, it wasn&rsquo;t operating at full capacity. In September 2022, Kannamwwar Nagar locals held a hunger strike over the lack of a hospital. At the time, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde ordered the BMC to settle the dispute over the land for the hospital and start construction of the facility immediately.
Initially, a 100-bed hospital was to be built at the site. But the BMC later decided to set up a 500-bed super-speciality hospital instead.
&ldquo;After the BMC makes the payment for the plot to the MHADA, the next process will start. We will prepare the plan and then start the tender process,&rsquo; an official stated. Dr Yogesh Bhalerao, a member of Amhi Vikhrolikar, the group which carried out the hunger strike, said the hospital could not be redeveloped in five years. &ldquo;The BMC should complete all the administrative processes and start the redevelopment work soon,&rdquo; he said.
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Will pay MHADA Rs 13 cr for plot; thereafter, planning, tender processes will begin; locals urge BMC to speed things up

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