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Time Business News
2 days ago
- Business
- Time Business News
IAS Sanjeev Jaiswal: Driving Urban Change in Maharashtra
Mumbai, India – IAS officer Sanjeev Jaiswal, a senior bureaucrat from the 1996 Maharashtra cadre, continues to earn recognition for his transformative work in urban governance, infrastructure development, and administrative innovation. With over two decades of experience, Jaiswal has held several key positions in Maharashtra's administrative machinery and has built a reputation as a reform-oriented, technology-driven, and citizen-first leader. Sanjeev Jaiswal's career is marked by landmark achievements that span multiple sectors — from municipal administration and urban planning to housing and public health. As Municipal Commissioner of Thane, he led the city's award-winning Smart City transformation. His leadership was instrumental in deploying real-time data systems, smart mobility solutions, and urban waste management technologies, placing Thane on the national map for digital innovation and urban efficiency. Later, as Additional Municipal Commissioner in the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation), Jaiswal was a central figure in Mumbai's COVID-19 management strategy. He supervised healthcare logistics, capacity expansion in containment zones, and the coordination of public-private partnerships for emergency services. His crisis management approach, built on transparency, rapid decision-making, and public communication, was widely acknowledged across civic bodies. IAS Sanjeev Jaiswal's tenure as CEO of MHADA (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) further cemented his reputation as a champion of inclusive development. Under his leadership, MHADA restructured its housing allocation systems, embraced digital platforms for application and draw processes, and accelerated key affordable housing projects that had previously been stuck in bureaucratic limbo. His initiatives contributed to boosting public confidence in government housing and brought transparency and speed to a sector often criticized for opacity and delays. Unlike many in public service, Sanjeev Jaiswal IAS is known for combining long-term planning with immediate execution. Whether it was restructuring administrative workflows, leveraging e-governance to increase citizen participation, or encouraging cross-department collaboration, his work has always aligned with the values of efficiency, accessibility, and integrity. In fact, across his roles, Jaiswal has regularly promoted projects tied to India's national missions, including Digital India, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Housing for All, and Smart Cities Mission. His understanding of both macro-level policy and grassroots impact makes him a rare asset in modern Indian bureaucracy. While many bureaucrats remain behind the scenes, Sanjeev Jaiswal's work has drawn public recognition for its clarity and impact. Citizens, local representatives, and independent policy think tanks have praised his efforts to create systems that are transparent, corruption-resistant, and future-ready. Importantly, he has maintained a clean and respected reputation, even amid periods of intense public scrutiny within the state machinery. His decision-making style is guided by rules, data, and empathy — a combination that defines good governance in the 21st century. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
India Today
4 days ago
- Business
- India Today
Mumbai's Kamathipura poised for redevelopment: Why residents are excited
The decks have been cleared for the largest such cluster redevelopment project in Mumbai with the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) floating tenders for the redevelopment of Kamathipura in south Mumbai. The MHADA is looking at appointing a construction and development agency for the will cover around 943 cessed buildings (those that pay a repair cess to MHADA), and 350 non-cessed buildings, 14 religious places and two schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Many of these buildings are over a century old and, hence, in a dilapidated condition. Put together, 9,761 tenants, including 8,385 residential and 1,376 commercial, will be covered. This also includes 1,760 landlord crumbling buildings in the 15 lanes that will be reconstructed include houses that measure around 100-150 square feet. The smallest tenements are just 60 sq ft, forcing many people to sleep on the roads at night. It is not uncommon to find even more than one family living in a matchbox-sized room. Residents also complain that the floors of these buildings, which are built on lands reclaimed from swamps and marshes, are sinking. Now, the residents will get around 500 sq ft houses, and commercial units will be given structures of the same redevelopment will be done in an integrated manner under Regulation 33(9) of the Development Control Regulations by the Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board, which comes under MHADA. The successful bidder will receive around 567,000 sq metres of development rights; a housing stock of approximately 4,500 new units is expected to be In December 2022, the state cabinet approved a proposal to appoint MHADA as the nodal agency for the 27.59 acres cluster redevelopment scheme, which will be the largest such Brownfield project in Mumbai and cover approximately 100,000 the 18th century, the Telugu-speaking 'Kamathi' workers from the dominions of the Nizam of Hyderabad came to Mumbai. They worked as construction labour and settled on a marshy plot of land in south Mumbai. In 1804, the government reclaimed this land to house these workers and thus, Kamathipura, or the 'area of the Kamathis', was Kamathis also staffed Mumbai's textile mills, integrated with the local Marathi culture, played a seminal role in the development and growth of Mahatma Jotiba Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj, and were part of the vanguard of the 'Samyukta Maharashtra' movement that ensured statehood for Maharashtra in 1960. In his seminal work on the role of the Telugus in the development of Mumbai, journalist and author Manohar Kadam refers to them as the sword arm of the Samyukta Maharashtra gradually, this area developed an unpalatable reputation of sorts due to the sex trade operating from some of its lanes. Mumbai's position as a port city and military centre, coupled with high numbers of migrant workers, led to a rise in this trade. In colonial Mumbai, apart from Indian sex workers, it was not uncommon to find European women who were engaged in the Ashwini Tambe mentions that in the colonial era, they lived principally in Kamathipura. This has also been depicted in Hindi films, most recently the Alia Bhatt-starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022). S.M. Edwardes, the former police commissioner of Bombay (1909-16), wrote that the arterial Cursetji Shuklaji Street, on Kamathipura's borders, was known as 'safed galli', or white lane, due to the European sex historian Deepak Rao noted that Shuklaji Street also had Chinese residents, Chinese social clubs and opium and gambling dens, and even a Chinese graveyard has left much of this past behind. It is now a market for textiles, electronic goods and recycled scrap, and the sex trade is taking its last gasps. But the stereotypes continue to persist, much to the chagrin of residents. This also overshadows the larger contribution of Kamathipura to contemporary instance, young Ambedkarites such as Namdeo Dhasal and fellow poet J.V. Pawar, who stayed at 'Vaakdi Chawl' at Siddharthnagar in Kamathipura's lane number one, birthed the Dalit Panther movement on May 29, 1972, to protest against the caste Vishal Yelle, a Kamathipura resident and general practitioner, welcomed the redevelopment plan. 'Now that the tender has been floated, we are more than halfway through. All residents, shopkeepers and landlords are eagerly awaiting the redevelopment for years,' he said many families who had given their dwellings on rent and shifted to larger houses in places like Virar were also expected to move back to Kamathipura once the area was redeveloped. 'Kamathipura has excellent rail connectivity due to its proximity to the Mumbai Central Railway Station, access to hospitals and playgrounds. The only issue that locals face is the small size of their houses,' he Patel, four-term Congress MLA from Mumbadevi, whose constituency covers Kamathipura, said the project had the potential to transform the lives of the people. 'MHADA must undertake this work in a transparent manner and ensure that it is completed within a period of five to seven years,' he say the redevelopment will help change the way their working-class locality is perceived by the society at large and boost their prospects in terms of jobs, marriage proposals and even loans and credit cards. This is regardless of the dwindling presence of the 'red-light' area in Kamathipura. Many brothel owners have sold or rented their premises to traders and manufacturers of goods like bags and jeans, and many women involved in the sex trade have shifted to the distant suburbs. Some of those who ply their trade stay in parts of the eastern suburbs and beyond and travel here for to India Today Magazine- Ends
Indian Express
5 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
MHADA reduces prices for more than 6,200 EWS houses in Thane district
The Konkan Housing and Area Development Board (KHADB), which falls under the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), recently reduced the sale prices of 6,248 houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in Thane district. These residences in Shirgaon and Khoni villages of Kalyan are now on sale at revised rates on a 'First Come, First Served' basis. 'The price cuts are intended to benefit residents of the EWS (Economically Weaker Section) category,' said Revati Gaikar, Chief Officer, KHADB. 'Eligible homebuyers are invited to apply for the scheme while stocks last,' she added. Sanjeev Jaiswal, Vice President and CEO, MHADA, approved the price revision. The sale price of 5,236 units in Shirgaon has been reduced by Rs 1,43,404 per unit from Rs 2,072,146. The new sale price of each of these units is now Rs 19,28,742. The cost of 1,012 houses in Khoni has been reduced by Rs 1,01,800 per unit from the original price of Rs 2,013,500. The homes are now up for sale at a new rate of Rs 19,11,700 each.
Hindustan Times
21-06-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Good news for Thane homebuyers: MHADA cuts prices of 6,200+ PMAY flats for EWS under first-come, first-served scheme
The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)'s Konkan Board has revised the prices of 6,248 affordable homes in Shirgaon and Khoni, Thane, under the PMAY-Urban scheme for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS). These homes are available on a First-Come, First-Served basis. The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)'s Konkan Board has revised the prices of 6,248 affordable homes in Shirgaon and Khoni, Thane, under the PMAY-Urban scheme for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS). (Picture for representational purposes only)(MHADA) MHADA said Vice President and CEO Sanjeev Jaiswal (IAS) has approved the revised pricing for 5,236 homes in Shirgaon, increasing each unit's price by ₹ 1.43 lakh to ₹ 19.28 lakh. In Khoni, the price of 1,012 affordable homes has been reduced by ₹ 1.01 lakh per house, and the revised sale price for each of these units is ₹ 19.11 lakh. "Citizens who are looking to buy their own house are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity," said Revati Gaikar, Chief Officer, Konkan Housing and Area Development Board. According to MHADA, there is no deadline for purchasing homes under the First Come, First Served category; sales will continue until all units are sold. Also Read: MHADA lottery 2024: Why has the authority turned to street plays to boost affordable housing sales near Mumbai? Income slab criteria Under the EWS category, individuals with a family income of up to ₹ 6 lakh per annum are eligible to apply. Those earning between ₹ 6 lakh and ₹ 9 lakh can apply under the Lower Income Group (LIG) category. Applicants with a family income between ₹ 9 lakh and ₹ 12 lakh fall under the Middle Income Group (MIG) category, while those earning above ₹ 12 lakh per annum are eligible under the High Income Group (HIG) category. Also Read: MHADA to construct 8 lakh affordable homes in the next five years: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde MHADA lottery 2025: 5,000 affordable homes expected to be put on sale in Mumbai this Diwali The MHADA is expected to announce the draw for approximately 5,000 affordable homes around Diwali 2025. Sanjeev Jaiswal, vice president and chief executive officer of MHADA, told reporters in April 2025, "The MHADA is planning to announce a lottery draw of about 5,000 homes this September-October. " Jaiswal said, "The affordable homes will be announced in different locations of Mumbai, and the details are being finalised. " Also Read: MHADA lottery 2025: 5,000 affordable homes set to go on sale in Mumbai this Diwali, says Maharashtra housing authority According to MHADA officials, around 5,200 affordable homes are likely to be part of the draw, which will be announced in the coming months. In 2024, more than 2000 affordable homes in the price range of ₹ 29 lakh to ₹ 6.82 crore were up for sale.
Indian Express
18-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
MHADA invites bids to redevelop dilapidated apartments in PMGP Colony in Mumbai's Jogeshwari
The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) on Tuesday floated a tender to hire an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractor for the redevelopment of the Prime Minister's Grant Project (PMGP) Colony within Poonam Nagar, Jogeshwari East, in Mumbai. The move aims to resolve longstanding redevelopment and safety issues of the colony that houses 984 families currently living in decrepit apartments spread over 17 ground-plus-four-storey buildings built between 1990 and 1992. The scheme will provide new housing units with a 450-sqft carpet area in place of the congested 180-sqft units covering an area of 27,625 sqm where they are currently living. 'According to structural audits conducted, the buildings have now deteriorated to a highly unsafe state, threatening safety to inmates,' said a senior officer from MHADA Mumbai Board. Under the current proposal, 942 residential and 42 non-residential tenements will be rehabilitated in a time-bound manner. MHADA has set a deadline of three-and-a-half years for the redevelopment, which is being implemented under the guidance of its Vice President and CEO, Sanjeev Jaiswal. The decision to redevelop the colony follows more than a decade's delay. In 2010, private developers were appointed by the housing societies in the colony for the redevelopment work. The Maharashtra government then cancelled the appointment of the developer on December 15, 2020 following repeated complaints from residents over lack of progress. The government then instructed MHADA to get the job done. Later, the tripartite arrangement with the developer was officially revoked in June 2022. In November 2023, MHADA filed a revised plan for cluster redevelopment under Regulation 33(5) of the Development Control and Promotion Regulations (DCPR) for its implementation by a private Construction and Development Agency (C&DA). The government, however, decided otherwise and went ahead with redevelopment under Regulation 33(5) of the DCPR. 'Tenders were issued twice during the previous year, in July and September 2024, but got no response. This forced MHADA to approach the government for permission to implement the project directly, which was given on May 28, this year,' the officer said. The new tender inviting bids from EPC contractors was published on MHADA's website on June 16 and is due for filing till July 7.
