Brazilian team keen on replicating citys rehabilitation model

Interested in replicating Mumbais model for rehabilitating families affected by infrastructure projects,a delegation from Brazil visited the city on Wednesday and went to construction sites of major projects such as the Metro,Sahar Elevated Road and the Milan subway over-bridge.

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Interested in replicating Mumbais model for rehabilitating families affected by infrastructure projects,a delegation from Brazil visited the city on Wednesday and went to construction sites of major projects such as the Metro,Sahar Elevated Road and the Milan subway over-bridge.

Alessandra Campanaro,infrastructure finance specialist at World Bank in Washington DC,led a three-member team from the metropolitan planning authority at Rio de Janeiro. The delegation is in Mumbai for a workshop on metropolitan planning organised by the Mumbai Transformation Support Unit on June 29.

On the first day of its two-day visit,the delegation spent the day with officials from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA),understanding the various infrastructure projects undertaken by the authority and visiting a few construction sites.

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The MMRDA has done some appreciable work as far as the resettlement and rehabilitation of its project-affected families are concerned. We obviously wanted to understand more about it to help authorities back in Rio de Janeiro implement the same relevantly, Campanaro said.

Officials from the delegation said the metropolitan planning authority of Rio de Janeiro,which is also rapidly developing road infrastructure,is similarly placed with regards to the populace,rights of its people and financial structure.

The delegation will also visit projects of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA).

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Brazilian team keen on replicating citys rehabilitation model

Interested in replicating Mumbais model for rehabilitating families affected by infrastructure projects,a delegation from Brazil visited the city on Wednesday and went to construction sites of major projects such as the Metro,Sahar Elevated Road and the Milan subway over-bridge.

Brazilian team keen on replicating citys rehabilitation model

Interested in replicating Mumbais model for rehabilitating families affected by infrastructure projects,a delegation from Brazil visited the city on Wednesday and went to construction sites of major projects such as the Metro,Sahar Elevated Road and the Milan subway over-bridge.