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.
Saturday, August 04, 2012
To,
Hon. AMC.,
H/East,
Mumbai
Dear Sir,
Namaskar.
After long gap yesterday i.e. 3rd
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.
