Maharashtra govt. to build 450-room working women’s hostel in south Mumbai

MHADA will undertake construction at ₹35 crore

A working women’s hostel will now come up on the site of the MP Mill Compound slum rehabilitation project, which led to the resignation of Prakash Mehta, the then housing minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party government, in 2017. State Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad said on Tuesday that the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority will build the hostel with 450 rooms at a cost of ₹35 crore to accommodate women who come to Mumbai for work from different parts of the State. Mr. Awhad said, “Mumbai is the financial capital of the country and women from all over the State come here seeking employment opportunities. They find it difficult to secure a place to stay and are forced to live in the distant suburbs. As a result, we decided to build a hostel for working women.” The minister said Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and party MP Supriya Sule had put forward a request to build such a hostel and he was happy to fulfil it.