Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad on Wednesday said legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar should utilise a government plot allotted to him in Mumbai by setting up a cricket academy and maintained in the past he had thought of taking back the prime piece of land.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan plans to overhaul the Rs 15,000-crore Dharavi redevelopment project. Chavan - who has already flagged what he called an "unholy nexus" among builders, politicians and middlemen in the wake of the Adarsh housing society scam - now wants state-run Maharashtra Housing & Area Development Authority (Mhada) to carry out the big-ticket project.
It is under the blessings of politicians that builders and the criminal-builder nexus is thriving.
Mhada presently has only Mumbai and Nashik cities in mind. If it takes off here, the thinking is to extend this to Pune and Aurangabad, and then elsewhere, if a common formula could be arrived at.
Six buildings have also come up on the land under the slum rehabilitation scheme, it said.
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