4 minutes of readingBombayFebruary 6, 2026 07:55 pm IST
A day after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation served notices seeking action against SRA officials and cessation of work on transit camps on a Worli land plot reserved for a sewage treatment plant, the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) asked the civic body to take possession of the reserved plot from the STP and at the same time issue directives to demolish the transit camp. However, SRA officials maintained that since the SRA developer is not carrying out any construction, it is the BMC that is carrying out construction work on the land for an upcoming bridge.
Earlier on February 5, the BMC in a letter said that seven transit camp buildings (1 to 7) had been approved by the G/South executive engineer (EE) of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority at Worli land. According to senior officials, two major sewer lines pass through the land where sewage flow has been affected due to construction activity.
Terming the SRA’s approval for the transit field “illegal”, additional municipal commissioner Ashwini Joshi on Thursday directed chief engineer (sewerage operations) to file a criminal complaint against EE (G/South) DB Patil for illegal permissions granted to the transit field. Meanwhile, in a notice issued by the deputy municipal commissioner of G/South ward, the BMC also directed the SRA to stop all construction activity at the site.
Responding to the notice, the SRA on Friday handed over the disputed land, measuring 17,756 square metres, to the BMC, asking it to take possession of the STP reserve land. Furthermore, the SRA also revoked permits of developers carrying out transit camp works for not obtaining NOC from MOEF as well as for not submitting NOC to the land owning authority, BMC. The SRA has ordered the developers to immediately demolish the unauthorized transit housing building constructed on the civic land.
For its part, the SRA maintains that the agency had earlier lodged an FIR against the developer and had issued a notice under Section 53(1) of the Maharashtra Town and Regional Planning Act, 1996 in August 2025. “While we had earlier granted them approvals for the transit camp on the plot, we revoked those permissions and issued a stop-work notice for transit camp buildings No. 1 to 7 as they had not obtained permits. of the The MOEF department as per the GOM notification we also lodged an FIR against the implementing agency at the local police station under the MRTP Act,” said DB Patil, executive engineer of the G/South district SRA.
Amid the notices, the SRA paid a visit to the Worli ground, where it observed construction activity by the BMC bridge department.
“We conducted a visit to the site on Friday and observed that apart from the traffic camps which we have asked to be demolished, the SRA is not carrying out any construction activities at the site. We observed that currently it is the BMC bridge department which is carrying out work at the site reserved for the STP plant. We observed machinery of the BMC bridge contractor present at the site which is working on the flyover bridge connecting E Moses Road to Anne Besant Road,” said an SRA official. He indian express.
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Meanwhile, Shiv Sena corporator and group leader Amey Ghole on Friday wrote to the chief secretary seeking cancellation of the deputation and an independent probe against the SRA engineer for “alleged misuse of official position, contradictory actions and serious procedural irregularities”.