India, June 26 -- After efforts spanning more than a decade, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has retrieved three plots in Meghwadi, in the Parel-Sewri area, reserved as recreation grounds and another for a municipal school in the city's Development Plan. The plots, measuring 651.35 sq m, 2,010 sq m and 1,950 sq m, and 2,700 sq m, together amount to around 7,300 sq m.

Civic officials say the plots had been rented to 13 tenants under the BMC's Vacant Land Tenancy (VLT) scheme. The tenants vacated by June 9 and have been rehabilitated.

The process brings to an end an administrative, legal and rehabilitation saga that lasted more than a decade. "The (combined) plot is huge, around 7,300 sq m, with around 50,000 footfalls. We we...