Losing the 'plot': SRA miscalculates, gifts builder 92% cemetery land!

Updated On: 01 February, 2014 08:15 AM IST | | Varun Singh

<p>Rules state builder has to return 25 per cent of cemetery plot that goes into redevelopment, but SRA’s FSI calculation let Omkar Realtors give only 8 per cent in a Malad project</p>

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Losing the 'plot': SRA miscalculates, gifts builder 92% cemetery land!

There are some officials at the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, who seem to think FSI applies to a cemetery as well. In a slum redevelopment project in Malad (East), the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) did some innovative calculations and let the builder keep a big chunk of land, which was originally a cemetery, to himself.

Ongoing construction of the project on the Western Express Highway in Malad (East). File pic