MAHARASHTRA LEGISLATURE PASSES MHADA ACT AMENDMENT TO UNBLOCK CESSED-BUILDING REDEVELOPMENT

MHADA कायदा दुरुस्ती मंजूर The Maharashtra Legislature has passed an amendment to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development (MHADA) Act to remove the legal ambiguity that led the Bombay High Court to stay implementation of Section 79A and nearly 935 specific notices issued under it - out of a wider universe of close to 13,000 cessed buildings across the city. The provisions, incorporated in 2020 after a series of fatal building collapses including the 2017 Husaini Building collapse, allow MHADA to take over the redevelopment of dangerous cessed buildings where landlords and occupants fail to act. The High Court had found the powers may have been exercised without proper statutory authorisation, freezing action on the 935 notices while the amendment was pending; the amendment has been passed by the Legislature but its notification and the Governor's assent had not been confirmed at the time of going to press. For residents of Mumbai's ageing cessed stock - much of it decades past its structural life - the amendment is intended to restore MHADA's authority to act where owners and tenants remain deadlocked, without the procedural infirmity the Court identified. The scale of the backlog means implementation, not the amendment itself, will now be the story to track.

उच्च न्यायालयाने स्थगित केलेल्या जवळपास ९३५ नोटिसांना पुन्हा वैध आधार विधिमंडळाने MHADA कायद्यात दुरुस्ती मंजूर केली असून, कलम ७९अ अंतर्गत कारवाईला उच्च न्यायालयाने दिलेल्या स्थगितीमागील कायदेशीर संदिग्धता दूर केली आहे. यामुळे धोकादायक सेस्ड इमारतींच्या पुनर्विकासाचा मार्ग पुन्हा खुला होईल.