PCMC municipal commissioner Ashish Sharma on Thursday said that the decision was taken at a meeting with district guardian minister Ajit Pawar and industries minister Rajendra Darda in Mumbai recently.

Vast stretches of land in PCMC limits have been acquired by the MIDC to develop as industrial belt. The PCMC has reserved some plots in this industrial belt for various developmental worksin the DP. Only a few of them have been transferred to the PCMC to be developed as per DP.

Sharma said, "The PCMC has reserved some plots in MIDC areas for developmental projects. We need MIDC land to build roads, but the MIDC is yet to transfer this land to us. We have been demanding that the MIDC transfer these plots to the PCMC at nominal rates as the people in the industrial belt as well as the MIDC will benefit due to the developmental works. There was a dispute between the PCMC and the MIDC over how to transfer the MIDC land. A meeting was held by Pawar and Darda in Mumbai to solve this problem."

Sharma said there were around three to four plots in MIDC areas that were reserved for slum rehabilitation. "We had demanded that the MIDC should transfer the land reserved for slum rehabilitation to the PCMC for the projects. But now a decision has been taken that MIDC will implement the slum rehab projects on its own on land reserved for slum rehabilitation in its areas. The MIDC will not transfer ownership of such plots," he said.