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Mumbai: PWD officials booked for selling 6 BDD blocks meant for classrooms
Updated On: 31 May, 2023 07:46 AM IST | Mumbai | Anurag Kamble
Rooms, rented by BMC to teach kids, had been locked after buildings housing them were declared dangerous
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The BMC’s education department runs schools in numerous blocks in Worl’s BDD chawls. File Pic/Ashish Raje
The Worli police have booked three officials of the state government’s Public Works Department (PWD) and six others for illegally selling and buying six blocks in Worli’s Bombay Development Department (BDD) chawls that were rented by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to use as classrooms. The officials allegedly used forged affidavits and ration cards to sell the blocks, which are 10x10-foot rooms.
The BMC’s education department runs schools in numerous blocks in various wards. In the G South ward, BMC has rented 66 blocks in BDD chawls. The civic body pays the Public Works Department around Rs 858 per month to use all of them. The BMC used to run a Marathi-medium and Telugu-medium school in building no. 84 and 100 respectively. The former accounted for two blocks while the latter has four. However, students who attended classes in these buildings were shifted to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar School as both had been deemed dangerous.
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