Maharashtra Govt Reverses Harsh Rule on Mill Workers’ Housing Allotment — “No More Lifetime Ban for Rejecting an Offered Home”

In a major relief for Mumbai’s mill workers, the Maharashtra government has withdrawn a rule that permanently barred workers from MHADA housing if they refused an offered home, restoring fairness to the long-pending housing scheme.

Maharashtra Govt Tightens Control Over MHADA Land Allotment, Forms High-Level Ministerial Panel

The Maharashtra government has formed a powerful Cabinet Sub-Committee to decide MHADA land allotments under Rule 16, centralising control over residential and commercial plots and replacing the earlier 2022 panel.

“Bathroom on Paper, Home for 40 Years”: Bombay High Court Steps In to Protect BDD Chawl Family

Calling it a “sad reality”, the Bombay High Court has granted interim protection to a Worli-based BDD Chawl family living for nearly four decades in a tenement officially marked as a common bathroom, ordering a site inspection and halting any coercive action amid MHADA’s redevelopment drive.

MHADA Mumbai Board to Allot 16 Amenity Plots; E-Tenders Open from December 12

MHADA’s Mumbai Board will open e-tenders on December 12 for the allotment of 16 amenity plots across major MHADA colonies, reserved for schools, hospitals, markets, community centres, and public services.

Govt Approves Land Acquisition for Parel’s K.K. Modi Wani Chawl Redevelopment After 25-Year Delay

The Maharashtra government has invoked Sections 91(A) and 93 of the MHADA Act to acquire the long-stalled K.K. Modi Wani Chawl property in Parel after 25 years of developer inaction, ordering blacklisting and criminal proceedings while empowering MHADA to complete the redevelopment.