Mumbai Metro owes Rs 28.55 cr in rents to MMRDA: RTI

April 04, 2016 22:58

The Anil Ambani group-run Mumbai Metro is yet to pay Rs 28.55 crore rent to the regional planning body the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority for the land at the northwestern suburb of Versova

where the metro operator had put up the casting yard, reveals a Right to Information answer from the authority.

The MMRDA in a response to an RTI query filed by activist Anil Galgali said, "Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd was handed over the Home Guard land measuring 2.4 hectare at Versova for a casting yard in January 2009 for a period of 15 months."

The MMRDA said the company originally owed Rs 30.63 crore in rentals, out of which it cleared only Rs 3.97 crore to the MMRDA on July 29, 2015. But with interest and delayed fees, the total outstanding is Rs 28.55 crore, shows the RTI answer.

For using the Home Guard land, MMOPL, run by Anil Ambani's Reliance Infrastructure, had agreed to pay rent to the MMRDA. But it failed to do so, but continued to occupy the land for 55 months.

"Since metro construction jumped several deadlines, the MMOPL sought four extensions from the MMRDA to use the land. In its bid to continue to use the land, it even promised to build a training centre for the Home Guards which was never fulfilled," the MMRDA said in its RTI reply.

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