Dharavi redevelopment: MHADA to hand over 660 flats for allotment to tenants by year end

In Dharavi’s Sector 5 area, spread over 62 hectares, 10,000 tenants live. The MHADA has spent over Rs 130 crore so far for the rehabilitation of the tenants.

In November 2018, then BJP-Shiv Sena government had declared redevelopment of Dharavi as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) project. While global tenders were invited last February for the SPV, with Dubai-based infrastructure firm SECLINK Technologies Corporation (STC) emerging as the lowest bidder.

On March 8, 2019, the DRPA had even issued a Letter of Intimation recognising STC as the topmost bidder and declared the government’s intention of awarding the contract to the firm. But then, the project saw little progress with the government seeking legal opinion on whether the tendering process itself had been vitiated due to the Railways handing over a 45-acre plot for the project.

With the AG now recommending inviting fresh bids for the project, a scrutiny committee earlier this month had decided to go for re-tendering.