Bollywood dreamgirl Hema Malini‘s plans to begin a dance academy on a plot of land in Mumbai’s Andheri area hit a roadblock on Thursday, as an RTI activist accused her of land-grabbing.
Precisely a month in the past, the Maharashtra government had allocated a prime 2,000-rectangular-metre plot to the Bharatiya Janata party Lok Sabha member inside the suburban upmarket Oshiwara region for her proposed dance academy.
In keeping with files procured under the proper to records (RTI) through activist Anil Galgali, Hema Malini become allocated the plot worth crores of rupees for a paltry Rs.70,000.
“no longer best that, this is the second time Hema Malini has been allocated a high plot inside the Mumbai suburbs. In advance, in 1997, the (then) Shiv Sena-BJP authorities had given her a plot of land, however she could not expand it due to CRZ (Coastal law quarter) issues,” Galgali advised IANS.
He claimed that although Hema Malini has no longer yet back the earlier plot, the cutting-edge government has allocated her some other plot.
Curiously, Congress Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Shukla became allocated a plot in Andheri West, however following an issue generated by way of then competition BJP-Shiv Sena, he was forced to give up it in February 2014 — simply earlier than the Lok Sabha elections.
The info of the allotment to Hema Malini from the Mumbai Suburban District Collectorate showed that she changed into given the land at handiest Rs.35 in keeping with rectangular metre.
Moreover, she became allotted some other plot of 1,741 rectangular metres within the equal locality in April 1997 for Rs.10 lakh, however because it fell partly under CRZ, she never developed it, nor did she enhance 25 percentage of the undertaking fee, however continues to hold that plot, Galgali said.
Within the new allotment, the Hema Malini Dance Academy’s cultural complicated project is predicted to cost round Rs.18.49 crore for which she is but to publish evidence of availability of 25 percent price range and sources to raise the stability seventy five percentage.
The RTI reply said the academy has handiest round Rs.3.Five crore — less than the 25 percentage minimal requirement, and it turned into doubtful about the stability seventy five percent.
Galgali has shot off a letter to chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis declaring the governement’s ‘benevolence’ to Hema Malini, and how it turned into flouting the kingdom’s coverage of taking lower back reserved land given to numerous businesses, but shelling out a plot reserved for a lawn to the BJP MP for her dance academy.
While revenue Minister Eknath Khadse made the allotment on December 29, 2015, Hema had stated how the matter have been buried in bureaucratic crimson tape for two decades, but the new government expedited it in document time.
Inputs by IANS