Mumbai, Sept. 25 -- Two days after the Congress alleged that a prime plot in Juhu worth Rs.800 crore was handed over to a builder with close links to the BJP under the guise of a slum rehabilitation project, Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam on Wednesday said the proposed project would benefit the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Gaikwad, however, claimed the project would result in a loss of at least Rs.240 crore. "The BMC had planned to construct 479 homes on the plot under the Aashray scheme, at a cost of Rs.140 crore. But if the plot is added to the SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) project, it will receive 600 houses at no cost," Satam said on Wednesday. The 48,407-square feet plot, which houses staff quarters for BMC's sanitation workers and some slum tenements, is reserved for a civic staff colony. On Monday, Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad alleged that the plot was being illegally handed over to a builder close to the BJP under the guise of a slum rehabilitation project. On Wednesday, Satam claimed the integration of the plot with the slum rehabilitation project would benefit 86 sanitation workers who had been deemed ineligible for rehabilitation. He also claimed that a slum rehabilitation project on the same plot was approved in 2008, with a Congress MLA as the promoter. The Enforcement Directorate's probe against DHFL chief promoters, Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan, covered the project, owing to which it was stalled for several years, he alleged. "The central agency lifted the stay on the project last year, after which a new developer was appointed through the National Company Law Tribunal. The developer requested the BMC to integrate the plot into an existing SRA project covering four adjoining plots," Satam said. The BMC is yet to take a final decision on the developer's proposal, said sources in the civic body. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Varsha Gaikwad alleged that the BMC's deputy chief engineer (improvements) had warned that the civic body would lose the plot if the slum rehabilitation project was approved. It would also lose more than 80,000 square feet of construction area, the engineer had warned in a letter that Gaikwad shared with her post on social media, claiming it would result in a loss of at least Rs.240 crore, based on conservative estimates....