India, Jan. 31 -- Twenty three families residing in Haji Noorani Chawl in Elphinstone Road who will be evicted to make way for the Sewri Worli Elevated Corridor have urged the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to rehabilitate them in the cluster redevelopment project underway in their neighbourhood.

Most of the families have been allotted rehabilitation homes in distant parts of the city like Wadala, Antop Hill and Jacob Circle, in contravention of the MMRDA's promise of rehabilitation within a 2-3 kilometre radius, the Haji Noorani Chawl Residents Welfare Association said in a letter to the MMRDA dated January 27.

"While collecting allotment letters for rehabilitation homes, we learnt that some residents of Haji ...