A narrow bylane in Motilal Nagar flanked by houses on either side. (Photographer: Ashwini Priolker/BloombergQuint)
Mumbai plans to redevelop an area equivalent of 40 cricket fields with 2,800 houses in the city’s suburbs. Residents would get apartments measuring around 1,100 square feet—by far the biggest in any rehabilitation scheme in India. Yet, a section of Motilal Nagar’s residents are unsure.A section of people in the six-decade-old locality in Goregaon, spread over 149 acres, wants even bigger homes from the Maharashtra Housing and Area De...