Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) president Kripashankar Singh has demanded that the state government should keep its promise to legalise hutments constructed till 2000 instead of the original cut-off year of 1995. Singh presented this demand to Ashok Chavan when he led a delegation to the chief minister on Friday and reminded him of the Congress-NCP alliance’s assurance to extend the cut-off year during the last poll campaign. In response to a PIL, the state had told the high court that it would not advance the cut-off dates for legalising hutments beyond 1995. Since then, it has been pointing at several legal hurdles that it has been facing in sticking to that plan—the state has been trying to legally wriggle out of its commitment and regularise huts constructed till 2000, a source said. The Shiv Sena is opposed to any extension of the cut-off year. Singh said the delegation also demanded that the government must, at the earliest, move all cowsheds out of the city as they were proving to be a health hazard for residents. There are over 625 cowsheds in the city that the civic administration has been trying to shift for the past several years, but in vain. The team also discussed the development of BDD Chawls.
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