The Maharashtra Housing Area and Development Authority (MHADA) has resolved to forcibly evict those residents of BDD chawls who are not cooperating with the authorities regarding the redevelopment of the chawls. The resolution finalised last week will now be sent to the government for their approval and will then be notified.

The state government had, in 2017, announced the BDD redevelopment project of around 207 chawls spread across 32 and 42 acres of land in Lower Parel and Naigaon (Dadar) respectively, and another 121 chawl buildings on 59 acres in Worli. Following the R16,000 crore redevelopment, residents will be able to move into swanky 500 square feet houses instead of their existing 160 square feet ones. The project is also expected to create a stock of about 16,000 houses that is likely to be used for affordable housing by MHADA.