Meeting held in the month of July 2024

Meeting with Shri Johny Joseph (Retd. IAS), Chairman HRC Committee on July 31, 2024

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Meeting with Shri Johny Joseph (Retd. IAS), Chairman HRC Committee and Shri

Chandrakant Undge, Dy. Chief Engineer, DP Dept II and HRC Committee Member

Secretary on July 31, 2024 regarding Revision of policy on insisting NOC for High Rise

Buildings by High Rise Committee. The meeting was attended by Shri Keval

Valambhia (Chief Operations Officer).

Meeting with Ajoy Mehta, Chairman MahaRERA on July 30, 204 To demonstrate the new registration portal, MahaCriti

MahaRERA convened an all SRO meeting to demonstrate the new registration portal, MahaCriti, which will soon be live for promoters, agents, and complainants. With this new portal, MahaRERA aims to collect information from promoters in a more systematic and structured manner. The system will eventually integrate AI to automatically send reminders for quarterly updates, project extensions, and other tasks. The meeting was chaired by Shri Ajoy Mehta, Chairperson, along with Shri Mahesh Pathak, Member 2; Shri Ramesh Pawar, Director of Compliance; and Shri Vinod Chithore, Director of Registration. The CREDAI-MCHI team was led by Shri Domnic Romell (President) and Shri Boman Irani (Imm. Past President), Shri Dhaval Ajmera (Hon. Secretary), Shri Raajesh Prajapati (Committee Member), Shri Keval Valambhia (Chief Operations Officer).

Meeting with Smt. Sujata Saunik (IAS), Chief Secretary on July 4, 2024

Sujata Saunik

The meeting was attended by Shri Nayan Shah (Past President), Shri Domnic Romell (President), Shri Dhaval Ajmera (Hon. Secretary), Shri Prashant Khandelwal (Committee Member) and Shri Vijay Lakhani (Invitee Member). The delegates congratulated her on her appointment as the new Chief Secretary. During the meeting, a long-pending issue was discussed regarding the allowance of building heights above 120 meters without High Rise Committee’s permission. It was requested that, as allowed up to 250 meters in developments under provision 33(9) of DCPR, the same principle should apply to all other developments under the provisions of 33(5), 33(7), 33(7)A, 33(7)B, 33(10), and 33(11), to avoid any kind of discrimination. Smt. Sujata Saunik kindly assured that she would look into this matter.

Meetings with Shri Kishor Gandhi on July 5, 2024 and July 18, 2024 regarding the issue of pending tree NOC

Kishor Gandhi

CREDAI-MCHI delegation met Shri Kishor Gandhi (DMC, Garden) regarding the issue of pending tree NOC. The delegation of CREDAI-MCHI put forward the issue of no tree NOCs being issued by the BMC for a long time. Shri Gandhi heard the matters in detail and have assured that most of the pending tree cutting NOCs will be sorted in the next 15 days and also assured that the BMC is aware of the issue of replanting of trees, particularly in smaller plots. He assured that with
guidance of the Hon. Municipal Commissioner, the BMC will be working on a
new policy where in either suitable land parcels will be identified by the ULB for
tree plantation or a Green Fund shall be collected in lieu of tree replantation at the
said plot. He also expressed the concern of finding land parcels within the BMC
limit for the same. Various options were discussed, and he assured of reverting
with suitable solutions, which will help projects not being impacted due to delay
in getting tree NOCs. CREDAI-MCHI is thankful to its members who attended
this meet in large numbers and were given assurity of clearing the pending tree
cutting applications. The meeting was led by Shri Dhaval Ajmera (Hon. Secretary),
Shri Umang Kuwadia (Committee Member), Shri Prashant Khandelwal
(Committee Member), Shri Sudhanshu Agarwal (Invitee Member) and Shri Keval
Valambhia (Chief Operations Officer) along with other members of CREDAIMCHI.

Meeting with Shri Atul Save, Hon. Housing Minister Government of Maharashtra and Shri Sanjeev Jaiswal (IAS) - Vice President MHADA on July 30, 2024 regarding Kamathipura Redevelopment Plan

CREDAI-MCHI was invited for a meeting on Kamathipura Redevelopment Plan
under the chairmanship of Hon. Housing Minister Shri. Atul Save. CREDAI-MCHI
team led by Shri Domnic Romell (President), Shri Boman Irani (Imm. Past President),
Shri Amit Thacker (Vice President), Shri Parag Munot (Committee Member), Shri
Rahul Sagar (Invitee Member), Shri Keval Valambhia (Chief Operations Officer)
attended the meeting MHADA shall be acting as a Special Planning Authority for this proposed redevelopment. Hon MLA Shri. Amin Patel & MHADA VP Shri. Sanjeev
Jaiswal, were present at the meeting. The MHADA team and their representatives
shared the presentation on the same.

Meeting with Shri Sunil Rathod, Chief Engineer Development Plan, BMC on July 18, 2024 regarding Various Real Estate Issue

Sunil Rathod (1)

The Meeting was attended by Shri Domnic Romell (President), Shri Sunny Bijlani (Jt. Secretary), Shri Hussain Lalani (Invitee Member), Shri Keval Valambhia (Chief Operations Officer)

Following Points were discussed in the meeting

  • Carriageway Entrance Charges
  • PCO Charges
  • Online NOCs
  • Incentive FSI