Mumbai, March 18 -- The Maharashtra government has ordered an audit into housing projects in the city wherein developers were required to hand over tenements to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for Permanent Transit Camps (PTC) and Project Affected Persons (PAP) in exchange for additional floor space index (FSI). The audit will be completed within 30 days, minister of state for urban development Madhuri Misal told the assembly on Tuesday. Misal admitted that some developers had violated the Development Control Regulations (DCR) by selling tenements meant for rehabilitation in the open market. Calling it a potential major corruption case, she said criminal proceedings would be initiated against errant developers as well as complicit BMC officials. Misal was responding to allegations of corruption by developers in connivance with BMC officials implementing housing schemes under DCR 33(11) and 33(20)(B), which govern the construction of PTC and PAP tenements and allow higher FSI to make redevelopment viable. During the discussion, BJP legislator Mihir Kotecha alleged that developers had shown in-situ PTC housing in project plans but instead built commercial shops and luxury apartments and sold them off. "In Mulund alone, flats worth over Rs.100 crore have been sold. Across Mumbai, the scale of the scam exceeds Rs.2,000 crore," Kotecha alleged. While the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) had acknowledged the irregularities, BMC officials were misleading the House, the BJP MLA said....