Forest officials balk at deadline for relocating Mumbai slums

  • 20/12/1997

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

With the government deciding to transfer large chunks of MHADA land to the Shivshahi Punarvasan Prakalp, the forest department finds it has no land to relocate 33,000 hutments from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.Though the Forest Department had given an undertaking to Bombay High Court that the relocation would be completed by Novemeber 7, officials now say there is no way they can meet the deadline.