After 12-Year-Long Wait, Redevelopment of Partition-Era GTB Nagar Finally Set to Begin

After more than a decade of uncertainty, legal disputes, and crumbling promises, a new chapter is finally set to begin for the residents of Guru Tegh Bahadur (GTB) Nagar in Sion.

- Ateeq Shaikh

MUMBAI: Once a settlement built for Partition refugees, the neighborhood will now undergo a long-awaited transformation, with the Rustomjee Group's Keystone Realtors bagging the rights to redevelop the 11.20-acre site.

The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), which floated the tender under its cluster redevelopment policy, issued a Letter of Acceptance to Keystone Realtors this week. The project involves the redevelopment of 25 buildings and over 1,200 tenements—most of them originally built between 1954 and 1987 to house displaced Punjabi and Sindhi families under the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act.