Why is it necessary to go in for cluster development of ‘C’ Ward in 2008?
C Ward has one of the highest ratio of old and dilapidated buildings to total buildings. It also has a mixed use with business, shops, markets and residential area next to each other. Being close to the main Central Business Area, it has the potential to get substantial revenue for free sale apartments so as to leverage land to create win-win solutions for all. ‘C’ Ward has the unique opportunity to be able to create a very good quality of life for its resident and business residents using a cluster redevelopment approach. 1000’s of buildings in the ward are structurally in a very weak condition. The buildings cannot be repaired forever and they have outlived their lives. In such a situation there is considerable risk to life and material. Every year few buildings fall down and lives are lost. With every coming year the number of victims may increase. Thousands of such buildings in C Ward will become more unsafe in the coming decade. We should not wait for the situation to become very
