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5 Ways To Solve Mumbai’s Illegal Building Problem

Mumbai has a whopping 56,000 illegal buildings, all of which are a huge strain on the city’s resources including water and power. The Maharashtra government wants to deal with this by regularising these buildings, making them legal. But that is no guarantee that this problem won’t crop up again in the future. Is there a

20,000 Illegal Buildings To Be Demolished In MMR’s Vasai-Virar

Vasai-Virar is one of the few affordable destinations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) but illegal buildings are a big problem with thousands of unauthorized and unapproved structures spread across the region. Having decided that enough is enough, the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) has started a drive to demolish these buildings. 5,000 Illegal Buildings Demolished