MHADA to recover dues worth Rs 262 cr from 89 hsg societies

Over a period of nearly 20 years, the amount owed by 89 housing societies to the Maharashtra Housing And Area Development Authority (MHADA) has reached Rs 262 crore. The MHADA colonies, which comprise of about 1.80 lakh homes spread across the city, are provided services by the Authority which include paying their property tax, Non Agricultural Assessment, water charges, pumping charges, common area electricity charges and others.

In most of the cases, MHADA noticed that the total amount to be paid to the service providers was not collected from the home owners in full and the Authority chipped in the remaining amount at the time. The MHADA recently dispatched notices seeking the owed amount from various societies and home owners.

The service charge that MHADA charges these housing societies is for services like paying their bills, taxes and getting their property assessed by different authorities. The service charge varies depending on the locality of the housing societies. In places where the conveyance deed is done, the society will be charged the amount and in remaining it will be individual home owner.

Subhash Lakhe, chief officer, MHADA’s Mumbai Board, under whom the societies fall, confirmed sending the notices and also confirmed the figure of …read more