Vision & Mission

Residents in the city of Mumbai Metropolitan Region enjoy various amenities such as recreational facility, social security, urban lifestyle, fair remuneration at work, and guarantee of adequate work for the head of family as well as other family members as per their ability and many other facilities are available. Due to such unique characteristic, a large number of people from other regions are attracted to this city and have settled in this city. Urbanization has led to extreme rise in rate/price, due to which architect, local bodies, housing societies and real estate developers have not been able to provide affordable housing to the common man in this city. The said slums have been constructed on private land as well as on lands owned by State Government, Municipal Corporation and Central Government and MHADA.

Action came to be initiated against slums which were unauthorized by the way of demolition or eviction as per the government’s policy before 1970’s. Later attempts to demolish the slums failed, further these attempts were considered inhuman by stating that the citizens who are an important part of this basic civic structure can’t be homeless.

In the second phase, it was decided that without demolishing these slums concrete action shall be taken in order to improve the basic civic facilities and environment of the area. Accordingly, the Government of Maharashtra enacted the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971, to make better provision for the improvement and clearance of slum areas in the State and their redevelopment and for the protection of occupiers from eviction and distress warrant.

The Maharashtra Government gave the permission for the Slum Rehabilitation Schemes prepared u/s 3(1) (B) of the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Slum Rehabilitation Authority.

In the next phase in and around 1980’s, there was a huge change in the goals and policies of the Government. Around this time, the implementation of slum upgrading program started with the help of World Bank.

In the current scenario, the Maharashtra Government has taken steps by introducing an innovative concept of using slum land as a resource and allowing incentive Floor Space Index (FSI) due to which from the sale of the saleable component the slum dwellers are provided free tenements.

Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Slum Rehabilitation Authority has been established under the Government Notification dated 08.09.2022. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra is the Chairperson of MMR/SRA and a super time scale IAS officer is full time Chief Executive Officer of the Authority. The nine other members include Ministers and Secretaries of the concerned State Government Department. The S.R. Schemes prepared by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority under section 3 (1) (B) of the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 were given sanction by the State Government.

Municipal Corporation in the State, Planning Authorities / Special Planning Authorities / Development Authorities in the Municipal Area, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, NAINA, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Hill Station, Eco- Sensitive/Eco-Fragile region notified by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Lonawala Municipal Council as well as Areas where CIDCO is functioning as Planning Authority, Pimpri-Chinchwad Navanagar Development Authority, MIHAN, MADC, MSRDC, except these planning authorities, the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations (UDCPR-2020) for all planning authorities and regional planning areas vide Government Notification No.TPS-1818/CR – 236/18/DP & RP/ Sec. 37 (1AA) (c) and Sec. 20 (4) UD-13, dated 02.12.2020, has been implemented with the provision for acceptance of the S.R. Scheme under Regulation No. 14.7 of UDCPR 2020.