Ganesh Naik Promises all to Vashi home owners

Guardian minister and his sons lend an ear to residents
As promised, the Naiks held a meeting with aggrieved residents of CIDCO –built row houses in Vashi on Friday Thane District Guardian Minister Ganesh Naik along with his son MP Sanjeev Naik and standing Committee Chairman Sandeep Naik lent a patients ear to the woes of the resident of row house in sector 6, 7, 8 who had received notices from NMMC in the last few days regarding unauthorized extension of the row house,
Surprisingly a large number of senior citizens number of senior citizen turned up for the meeting held at NMSA. Since July 25 is the last day mentioned in the notice for regularizing the unauthorized constrictions many anxious residents fearing demolitions turned up to seek help from the minister. Harping on the same tune. Naik informed the crowd that he was holding talk with Chief Minister Ashok Chavan about allotting increased floor Space Index (FSI) to original residents of Navi Mumbai. Who reside in old houses constructed by CIDCO more than 30 years ago?
“Both, ex-CM Vilasrao Deshmukh and the present CM Chavan, Have shown equal interest in the matter and we are in regular correspondence with them. Over the years.
Families have grown, their needs have increased and owners have extended their boundaries. This is true across the city .The matter of allocating increased FSI and regularizing such mistakes is now pending with the urban development department. If all goes well, the row house apartment owners too will be covered under this scheme and will be allotted more FSI. In such a case, we could even reconstruct the houses in future, “he explained.
Assuring the resident of all legal help, Naik offered the services of an experienced advocate to represent the residents in the High Court. In an emotion-packed speech. Naik said, “We are with you at every step. If required, we will even knock Supreme Court doors and get the streets to fight for your justice”. He also assured resident s that NMMC will not undertake and demolition drive till monsoon.
Corporator Vithal more urged residents to volunteer and residents to form a committee comprising representatives of various row sensitive’s of various row house associations in these sectors to attend to the problem. The committee members are likely to hold a meeting in next couple of days to file an appeal letter to be submitted in the High Court in Monday.
NMMC survey had revealed that over 80 pc row house owners have made extensions in their homes without due permission from the civic body, clearly violating FSI rules in the process. The civic body undertook the survey in response to RTI plea and a HC ruling.