MHADA's hay making tactics

Recently many old buildings came crumbling down and in the process many lives were lost. Our state controlled MHADA (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) did spring into action. They made scapegoats of a few of their unsuspecting employees and suspended them. Apparently these employees had certified the safety of the buildings that crashed down.

Now comes the part of relocating the residents. There is obviously no space left around in Bombay and so the residents have been asked to shift to transit camps in far flug areas like Goregaon, Gorai and Kandivali. This obviously hasnt gone down well with the residents. Some of them went to the extent that unless they were given alternate accomodation at Pedder Road, they woudnt budge ("Over my dead body" type of statements).

Now another angle to all of this. The builder and politician realises that if they have to keep making hay then they need place to erect their towers in South Bombay. This cant be done unless the old structures are demolished. This cant be done unless the residents of those move out. So what they are now doing is certifying any old looking building as dangerous and forcibly evecting people from there with the help of the police. Once the residents go, that will be the last time they see their old houses. For in a year it would have been replaced with 50 storey towers and some malls.

They have to make hay, right ?