India, June 4 -- Starting Friday, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) will begin handing over possession of 537 redeveloped Bombay Development Department (BDD) flats to families at Naigaon, taking the total number of rehabilitation units handed over to affected residents to 2,784.

With the larger BDD chawl redevelopment project comprising 15,593 flats across Naigaon, Worli and Parel, the latest round of handover will take the proportion of redeveloped flats allocated to affected residents to 18% of the overall target.

"We recently received occupancy certificates for tower numbers 1, 2 and 3 (in Naigaon), which have more than 500 flats. We will begin distribution of the flats from Friday," a senior Mhada offici...