India, March 21 -- Tukaram Shinde and Nasirali Ishraf Ali Khan, pavement dwellers in Lower Parel, have received a windfall. Each has been allotted, not one, but two rehabilitation flats due to displacement for a road widening project.

One flat each has been allotted under the Project Affected Persons (PAP) policy of the BMC's estate department, while the other has been assigned under Regulation 33(12)(B) of a road-widening bottleneck policy. That's the first anomaly.

G-South ward also lists both Shinde and Khan as occupants of the same hutment - No 7, Plot No 367, Senapati Bapat Marg, at Balkrishna Gawde Chowk, Elphinstone Road - even though rehabilitation policies allot only one flat to the occupants of a single tenement.

But, in Mumb...