RoMF

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

Report on the Activities of RoMF since inception

Please find below a chronological account of the major activities of the federation till date

04^TH APRIL 2007 - FIRST MEETING FOR INCEPTION OF FEDERATION OF OVER 50 ASSOCIATIONS.

04^TH MAY 2007 - SECOND FEDERATION MEETING TO INCLUDE SLUMS AND OLD CHAWLS IN THE PROPOSAL ALONG WITH DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS.

12^TH JUNE 2007 - PRESENTATION MADE TO OFFICER ON SPECIAL DUTY, SHRI. SANJAY UBALE.

16^TH JUNE 2007 - PRESENTATION MADE TO HOUSING SECRETARY, SHRI. SWADHIN KSHATRIYA, ALONG WITH CEO OF MHADA, SHRI. CHAHAL, CHIEF ENGINEER, MHADA, CHIEF OFFICER, MHADA, MUNICIPAL COMMISIONER OF GREATER MUMBAI AND OTHERS.

04^TH JULY 2007 - PRESENTATION MADE TO MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER, SHRI. JAIRAJ PHATAK.

04^TH JULY 2007 - PRESENTATION MADE TO URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY, SHRI. RAMANAND TIWARI.

06^TH JULY 2007 - PRESENTATION MADE TO HON’BLE DY.CHIEF MINISTER, SHRI. R. R. PATIL, POLICE COMMISSIONER, MD OF POLICE HOUSING, JT. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE (ADMIN), HOME SECRETARY, MHADA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, HOUSING SECRETARY AND OTHERS.

09^TH - 10^TH JULY 2007 - PRESENTATION IN THE TALL BUILDING CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI TO OVER 300 INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES.

28^TH JULY 2007 - APPOINTMENT OF SHRI. LALIT GANDHI AS COUNTRY LEADER FOR CTBUH.

31^ST JULY 2007 - FEDERATION REGISTERED.

22^ND AUGUST 2007 - FIRST MANAGING COMMITTEE OF ROMF FORMED.

05^TH- 06^TH SEPT. 2007 - PRESENTATION IN FT ASIA PROPERTY SUMMIT IN HONG KONG ORGANIZED BY FINANCIAL TIMES, UK AND ATTENDED BY OVER 250 DELEGATES.

20^TH SEPT. 2007 - PRESENTATION TO KUMARI SELJA, HON’BLE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR HOUSING AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN NEW DELHI.

27^TH SEPT. 2007 - PRESENTATION GIVEN TO THE CHIEF SECRETARY, MR. JOHNY JOSEPH AND PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HOUSING.

11^TH OCTOBER 2007 - ADVERTISEMENT BY SPECIAL PROJECT (GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA) FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR URBAN REVIVAL SCHEME FOR CREATION OF PILOT PROJECT.

12^TH OCTOBER 2007 - PRESENTATION GIVEN TO THE ESTATE AGENTS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA & THEIR MEMBER’S.

04^th NOVEMBER 2007 - PUBLIC MEETING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ‘C’ WARD WITH TENENTS & OWNERS AT ACHARYA MAHAPRAGYA VIDYANIDHI HALL, DADISETH AGIYARI LANE, KALBADEVI ROAD MUMBAI OVER 10,000 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN THIS.

15^TH NOVEMBER 2007 - ROMF SUBMITTED PROPOSAL WHICH MET ALL THE PARAMETERS FOR THE URBAN REVIVAL SCHEME OF THE PILOT PROJECT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA.

20^TH NOVEMBER 2007 - PRESENTATION WAS MADE TO MR.V.KRISHNAMURTHY, MEMBER NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL (NAC) AND MR. GOVIND RAJAN, MEMBER, SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

03^RD DECEMBER 2007 - PRESENTATION WAS MADE TO MR. SWADHIN KSHATRIYA, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HOUSING, MR. SANJAY UBALE, SECRETARY (SPECIAL PROJECTS) GAD & MR. U P S MADAN, CHAIRMAN, ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF LOCAL SELF GOVT.

29^TH DECEMBER 2007 - PRESENTATION GIVEN TO THE OFFICE BEARERS OF VARIOUS TRADE AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS.

10^TH JANUARY 2008 - PRESENTATION GIVEN TO MR. SACHIN AHIR, CHAIRMAN, REPAIRS & RECONSTRUCTION BOARD, MHADA.

19^TH JANUARY 2008 - MASSIVE PUBLIC MEETING & AUDIO VISUAL PRESENTATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ‘C’ WARD WITH TRADERS, SHOPKEEPERS, OFFICE OWNERS ADDRESSED BY MR.SACHIN AHIR, CHAIRMAN, REPAIRS & RECONSTRUCTION BOARD, MHADA, SPEACHES BY MR. RAJ PUROHIT, MLA, MR. BHAI JAGTAP, MLA, MR. ARVIND NERKAR, MLA & MR. BASHIR PATEL, MLA AND ATTTENDED BY NINE LOCAL CORPORATORS AT ACHARYA MAHAPRAGYA VIDYANIDHI HALL, DADISETH AGIYARI LANE, KALBADEVI ROAD MUMBAI.

21^ST FEBRUARY 2008 - ALL FOUR MLA’S PRESENTED MEMORANDUM FOR PILOT PROJECT TO THE HON’BLE CHIEF MINISTRER SHRI VILASRAOJI DESHMUKH.

26^TH FEBRUARY 2008 - PRESENTATION WAS MADE TO THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL (NAC), GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

13^th MARCH 2008 - PRESENTATION TO MR. NARAYAN MURTHY, MENTOR – INFOSYS, BANGALORE.

16^th APRIL 2008 - THE CHIEF MINISTER DECLARED ON THE FLOOR OF ASSEMBLY TO GO AHEAD WITH DEVELOPMENT OF “C” WARD.

23^rd APRIL 2008 - DAVID SCOTT – CHAIRMAN CTBUH MET CHIEF MINISTER AND DISCUSSED WITH HIM THE NEED FOR REDEVELOPMENT IN “C” WARD.

03^rd JUNE 2008 - PRESENTATION GIVEN TO HIS HOLINESS SRI SRI RAVISHANKARJI, WHO WAS OVERWHELMED WITH THE SCHEME AND BLESSED US BY BECOMING MASTER VISIONARY TO THIS PROJECT

26^th JUNE 2008 - PRESS CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY ROMF ON 3 ISSUES : A. OPENING OF DISASTER RELIEF CELL, B. SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN DRIVE TO REMOVE CRZ FROM C & D WARDS, C. APPOINTMENT OF ARUP AS PLANNERS AND CONSULTANTS FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF C WARD.

28^th JUNE 2008 - ORGANISED A MASSIVE PUBLIC MEETING ATTENDED BY OVER 10,000 PEOPLE FOR CREATING AWARENESS ON ABOVE 3 ISSUES, AT ACHARYA MAHAPRAGYA HALL.

THE OCCASSSION WAS GRACED BY SHRI GOPINATHJI MUNDE AND JAYWANTIBEN MEHTA ALONG WITH LOCAL MLAs AND CORPORATORS WHO SUPPORTED OUR PETITION TO MOEF FOR REMOVAL OF CRZ.

INAUGURATION OF AMBULANCE BY THE HANDS OF DY. MAYOR SHRI VINOD GHEDIA, AND VOLUNTARY DISASTER RELIEF CELL CREATED TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO LOCAL CITIZENS IN TIMES OF CALAMITY.

AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH ARUP WHICH WAS REPRESENTED BY ASHOK RAIJI, PRICNCIPAL AND TOM JOST, ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL.

09^th JULY 2008 - PETITION GIVEN TO THE HON’BLE MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT & FOREST, GOVT. OF INDIA SHRI NAMO NARAYAN MEENA TO REMOVE/RELAX CRZ II BY ROMF JOINTLY WITH CITIZEN FORUM FOR C WARD DEVELOPMENT (CFCD), OLD BUILDINGS LANDLORDS WELFARE ASSOCIATION (OLWA) & FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATION OF MAHARASHTRA (FAM) ALONG WITH 20,102 SIGNATURES OF LOCAL CITIZENS OF AFFECTED AREA.

25^th JULY 2008 - REAL ESTATE FORUM 2008, CAPITALISING ON CUTTING EDGE ISSUES AND APPROACHES IN INTEGRATED REAL ESTATE CONCEPTS.

SESSION DISCUSSION: CREATION OF WORLD CLASS MUMBAI, WHILE LEVERAGING ON REDEVELOPMENT OF OLD & DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS.

28^th AUGUST 2008 - SEMINAR ON CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT ORGANISED ALONGWITH 27 OTHER ORGANISATION AT INDIAN MERCHANT CHAMBERS.

DEC – JANUARY 2009 - DRIVE FOR CONSENT OF OVER 70% OF TENANTS / OCCUPIERS OF 30 ACRES CONSISTING OF AROUND 350 BUILDINGS AND AROUND 7000 TENEMENTS.

3^rd FEBRUARY 2009 - INAUGURATION BY DR. VIJAY KHOLE, VICE CHANCELLOR, MUMBAI UNIVERSITY, OF STUDIO PROGRAMME BY STUDENTS OF ILLIONIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHICAGO, SIR JJ SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND RIZVI COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE SEMINAR HALL OF SIR JJ COLLEGE. CHIEF GUEST DY. MAYOR, ANTONY WOOD, MR. RAJIV MISHRA AND MR AKHTAR CHAUHAN.

7^th FEBRUARY 2009 - INTERACTIVE MEETING WITH THE MEMBERS OF BUILDING REPRESENTATIVE FORUM (BRF) AT ACHARYA MAHAPRAGYA

28^th FEBRUARY 2009- FEDERATION’S AGM HELD AT INDIAN MERCHANTS’ CHAMBERS (IMC)

22^nd jUNE 2009 - presentation WAS made for relaxing/removing CRZ norms in C and D wards TO Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MSCZMA)

28^TH June 2009 - A pre-Budget Memorandum for giving special impetus to Inner City development implementing Urban Renewal Scheme through Cluster Development, prepared by a consortium of 23 Stakeholder Associations, and co-ordinated by “Remaking of Mumbai Federation” was submitted to the Hon’ble Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee by his Excellency Justice P. N. Bhagwati and Mr. Mayank Gandhi, President and Secretary respectively of the Remaking of Mumbai Federation.

7^TH JULY 2009 – A MEETING WAS HELD AT CATHOLIC GYMKHANA, MARINE DRIVE on budget provisions on inner city redevelopment WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY our chairman Shri Lalit Gandhi, Shri Anil Harish and Shri Vimal Punmiya, noted Tax experts and Shri Vinod Sampat in partnership with the Estate Agents Association of India, headed by Shri Yashwant Dalal.

8^TH jULY 2009 - presentation was made to the Expert Committee CONSISTING OF Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, noted Scientist, Ms. Sunita Narayan, noted Environmentalist and various Secretaries of the MoEF in New Delhi to remove the restriction on redevelopment at ‘C’ and ‘D’ Wards of Mumbai and a distinction was made about allowing redevelopment in CRZ areas.

aUGUST 2009 - Our Chairman Mr. Lalit Gandhi was felicitated by the leading Times Group of newspapers and Maharashtra’s largest selling Hindi newspaper, The Navbharat Times, with the ‘Visionary of the Decade’ award at the hands of the honb’le Chief Minister, Shri Ashok Chavan at the Taj Land’s End FOR our scheme of ‘Redevelopment through Cluster Approach’

9^th august 2009 - A comprehensive meeting on the relaxation of the Costal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms was organized by ROMF and three other associations at the Kshetrapal Hall, Naviwadi. It was attended by over 500 local residents of 'C' and 'D' ward, environmentalists, architects, builders, advocates, local MLAs and landlords

12^th August 2009 - ROMF along with three other associations handed over a detailed petition on the relaxation of CRZ norms to the honorable Central Minister of State of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Jairam Ramesh at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Dadar in front of several stakeholders of the coastal zone including locals and MLAs from 'C' and ‘D’ ward buildings.

19^TH AUGUST 2009- mR lALIT gANDHI LAUNCHED ctbuh 2010 WORLD CONFERENCE- INDIA, ‘rEMAKING SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN THE VERTICAL AGE’ AT THE TAJ MAHAL HOTEL IN FRONT OF 200 ESTEEMED GUEST FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. Also present at the event were Nana Chudasama, Sunil Mantri, Anand Gupta, Gul Kripalani, Mr Dharmadhikari and architects including Hafeez Contractor, Mukesh Mehta, Sen Kapadia, Manoj Daisaria, Akhtar Chauhan and Rajiv Mishra.

5TH SEPTEMBER 2009-

The Economic Times organized the Think Turf Roundtable on 'Inner cities redevelopment of India' which was attended by OUR CHAIRMAN Mr. Lalit Gandhi, Mr. Ajit Gulabchand, CMD, HCC, Adv. Pritam Kumar Shegaonkar, Minister o f S t a t e H o u s i n g a n d S l u m Improvement, Mr. M.K. Sinha, President, IDFC Project Equity C o m p a n y L t d , M r. G a u t a m Chatterjee, Vice President, MHADA and Mr. R Sridharan, Senior Editor, ET NOW.

21^ST -23^RD OCTOBER 2009 - rOMF AND mmrda ATTENDED THE ctbuh 2009 CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO. mR rAMMNA, cHIEF TRANSPORTATION PLANNER OF MMRDA MADE A PRESENTATION ON DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR MUMBAI.

24^TH OCTOBER 2009 – C WARD CLEANLINESS CAMPAIGN WAS INITITATED BY ROMF AND A MEETING OF LOCAL CITIZENS WAS CALLED TO FORM AN ADVANCE LOCALITY MANAGEMENT (ALM) FOR FANASWADI.

5-8^TH NOVEMBER 2009 – CTBUH AND ROMF EXHIBITED AT THE ACETECH 2009 EXHIBITION AT GEC, MUMBAI. IT PROMOTED THE WORLD CONFERENCE AND SPREAD THE WORD ON THE NEED FOR REDEVELOPMENT IN ‘C’ WARD.

1-3^RD DECEMBER 2009 – ANTONY WOOD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CTBUH ALONG WITH ROMF ORGANISED COCKTAIL EVENINGS IN MUMBAI, BANGALORE AND PUNE TO INTERACT WITH ARCHITECTS, PLANNERS, ENGINEERS, CONSULTANTS, BUILDERS AND PROFESSIONALS FROM THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND BRIEFED THEM ABOUT THE UPCOMING CTBUH WORLD CONFERENCE, MUMBAI

FUTURE EVENTS

3^RD-5^TH FEBRUARY 2010 -- CTBUH 2010 WORLD CONFERENCE-MUMBAI, ‘REMAKING SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN THE VERTICAL AGE’ TO BE HELD AT RENAISANCE HOTEL. THE EVENT WILL BE ATTENDED BY OVER 70 GLOBAL SPEAKERS, ESTIMATED 700 DELEGATES, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS.

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