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The Maharashtra Housing Board (MHB) was established in 1948 and had a jurisdiction over the entire State of Maharashtra except for the Vidarbha region. This body undertook construction of residential buildings under various housing schemes for different sections of society. The allotment and maintenance of these buildings was being looked after ...
The erstwhile Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board was restructured by a Government Resolution dated 5.11.1992 and split into three separate Boards viz. Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board, Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board and Mumbai Slum Improvement Board Under the Government Resolution No. 2679/B, dated 22.7.1992.
A lack of housing coupled with high population growth, and has resulted in individuals living in low-cost illegal buildings [8] [9] or building shanties or huts on illegal land. [4] For instance, many people have moved to the greater Mumbai area in search of jobs, and without affordable housing, thousands sleep in slums or on the streets. [8]
Among the guidelines released on Wednesday by Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corp (BMC), construction sites in the city were asked to erect barricades at buiding sites of up to 35-feet (10.67 m ...
The number of migrants to Mumbai from outside Maharashtra during the 1991–2001 decade was 1.12 million, which amounted to 54.8% of the net addition to the population of Mumbai. [11] Over 7 million people, over 42% of the population of Mumbai, live in informal housing or slums, yet they cover only 6–8% of the city's land area.
The construction industry lost more than 2 million workers following the subprime mortgage crisis, with an average of 300,000 to 400,000 unfilled construction jobs each month over the past several ...
The construction industry of India is an important indicator of the development as it creates investment opportunities across various related sectors. With a share of around 8.2%, the construction industry has contributed an estimated ₹670,778 crores ( US$ 131 billion) [ 1 ] to the national GDP at factor cost in 2011–12. [ 2 ]
In 1958, the government of Mumbai appointed a study group under the chairmanship of S. G. Barve, Secretary of the Public Works Department, to consider the problems of traffic congestion, deficiency of open spaces and playing fields, housing shortages, and over-concentration of industry in the metropolitan and suburban areas of the city and to ...