Mumbai, April 22 -- Three out of the four resident groups of Goregaon's Motilal Nagar, set to undergo redevelopment, have welcomed Mhada's decision to offer larger homes, but continue to seek a higher corpus or homes free of maintenance fees, and the preservation of old religious structures in the revamped layout. Mhada on April 17 unveiled a master plan for the redevelopment of Motilal Nagar, in which over 3,700 families will receive homes measuring 1,600 sq ft (RERA carpet area), equivalent to 1,880 sq ft of built-up area. This was an increase from the authority's earlier proposal of 1,600 sq ft of built-up area, but significantly lower than the 2,000-2,400 sq ft units demanded by resident groups. On Tuesday, the office bearers of three resident groups-the Motilal Nagar Jankalyankari Samiti, the Motilal Nagar Rahivasi Vikas Sangh, and the Motilal Nagar Redevelopment Coordination Committee-said the Maharashtra government had come closer to their demand of 2,000 sq ft homes. "However, our dialogue will continue on other points that remain unresolved. We won't press for 2,000 sq ft built homes as much as we will for higher corpus or maintenance-free homes," said Malhari Bhise, chairperson of the Motilal Nagar Rahivasi Vikas Sangh. "We want Mhada to provide us either Rs.25 lakh in corpus funds or 20 years of maintenance-free homes," said Madhavi Rane, chairperson of the Motilal Nagar Jankalyankari Samiti. Currently, residents are being offered a corpus of Rs.2 lakh and five years of maintenance-free homes. The residents fear being stranded if the redevelopment stalls in the future. Residents have also insisted on a "key-to-key" redevelopment model, where they are handed new homes in exchange for their existing ones without an interim displacement period. "Having key-to-key redevelopment is also necessary to ensure we either have the existing home or a new one and not get stuck during the transition phase," said Santosh Parab, general secretary of the Motilal Nagar Redevelopment Coordination Committee. Mhada has agreed to this demand. The Motilal Nagar Vikas Samiti has also written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, seeking the transfer of Mhada CEO Sanjeev Jaiswal for allegedly threatening a resident who was protesting the terms of the redevelopment. In a viral video, Jaiswal appears to be seen referring to the resident as an infiltrator or illegal occupant....