India, Oct. 22 -- The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) will rope in the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) to conduct a structural audit of all rehabilitation buildings under the Patra Chawl redevelopment project, the housing authority informed the Bombay High Court last week.

The division bench of justices Girish Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe was hearing a petition filed by Goregaon Siddharth Nagar Sahakari Griha Nirman Samstha, the co-operative housing society that manages the rehabilitation buildings, regarding poor quality of construction and recent instances of lift malfunctioning and plaster falling off.

Advocate Samir Vaidya, the petitioner's counsel, said that a large chunk of plaster had fallen...