India, July 16 -- The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has accepted the demands of Goregaon's Patra Chawl residents pertaining to Permanent Alternate Accommodation Agreements (PAAA), corpus fund, interest on dues, substandard construction quality and maintenance. The residents are likely to get possession of their homes within two months.

"MHADA has agreed to do the needful by appointing a company for a period of three years to plug the problems," said a MHADA official.

"We had multiple demands that were pending for a long time. Therefore, we organised a protest outside MHADA's head office on Tuesday morning," said Rajesh Dalvi, president, Siddharth Nagar Co-operative Housing Society (Patra Chawl Tenants Associ...