Condition of Saburi building at Vakola Bridge

Alok Tholiya (Ex-S.E.O.)

Past President: Lions Club of Vakola, Leo dist. 323A

Vice President: Mumbai Digambar Jain Seva Samiti

Founder: Varishtha Nagrik Seva Sanstha (Estb.2003)

THOLIYA BHAVAN. GR. FLOOR,

10th ROAD, NEXT TO REGENCY HOTEL,

SANTACRUZ (EAST), MUMBAI: 400 055.

Tel. 26125699 /  M.9324225699.

atholiya@gmail.com/ www.aloktholiya.blogspot.com

Saturday, August 04, 2012

To,

Hon. AMC.,

H/East,

Mumbai

Dear Sir,

Namaskar.

After long gap yesterday i.e. 3^rd August I visited my old building . Pl. find enclosed pictures clicked thru my mobile which are self explanatory.

Before I make further submission here is a brief history of same:

Around 1942 one good decent goan Christian family  built this building and named it Dias Bungalow.

They kept three tenants in building at different span of time.

1.      My grand father Late M M Tholiya who was then running Jawahar Stores, Jawahar Hotel, etc. . In 1991 I inherited his shops. Subsequent years I started taking interest and started TV shop and wound up some of my grandfathers business. Due to flooding and leakage from first floor ( percolating from terrace to first floor and also from toilet blocks of first floor) lot of damage was caused to me repeatedly. This forced me to shut my business. However during interim period that is in 1989 I purchased from landlord this building.

2.      Late Mr Choudhary was running Bharat Lodge and subsequently inherited by Mrs  Bina , his wife. Her rent since 1950’s is still only Rs 138/- p.m. .

3.      Dattatraya Paan Bidi shop. Their rent since inception of tenancy is Rs 40/- p.m.

4.       My grandfather on humanitarian pleadings by one Hamirsingh and his son Kishansingh gave a 50 sq feet space on west side otla of our shops to run a tea stall as their village was suffering due to drought and they were dying of hunger. It was agreed that he will pay Rs 5 per day to my dadaji. But he developed local connections and started wielding muscle and political power. His good contacts were one Dada running liquor shop and subsequently one Suresh Thakur who was also a nagar sevak due to blessing of big leader from UP. Under their shelter he expanded unauthorizedly  his  stall and started calling same as Ranjit Hotel The same Ranjit Hotel is still running without any municipal licence, without police license and now without FSSAI. Several complaints to all concerned agencies were made. But it yielded no results as there was god father behind this Ranjit Hotel owner. So he pays nothing to owners of property but does roaring business without licence and without paying any taxes. ON my complaint Reliance energy had raided his hotel where he was using stolen power supply. He abandoned several water connections evading bills of thousands and kept on taking new connections.

So my income from building is Rs 178/- p.m. that is Rs

But I hv to pay ever increasing BMC property taxes of Rs 4882/-  and so also I have to pay Rs 3145/- per year to land revenue dept.

I also have to pay for some bear minimum emergency. I am maintaining  the flower bed developed by BMC and the then municipal corporator Shri George Abraham and Shri Basant Kshirsagar. This is costing me another Rs 10000/-  per year.