Gharkul

Development

Gharkul was developed by City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) of Maharashtra for Low Income Group (LIG) and Medium Income Group (MIG). This project was started in the year 2000 and completed in 2002 and the opening ceremony was presided by the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh. It comprises 72 building and has more than 1200 tenements. It was designed by architect Hafeez Contractor. Currently Gharkul has supermarkets like D-MART, Reliance Fresh and so on. GOODWILL PARADISE, GALAXY CARINA and others are high-end luxury residential complexes with close proximity to Gharkul.

Housing Projects

CIDCO framed its housing policy incorporating self-financing principle using land as a prime resource in development of housing sector to meet the fast-growing demand for all sections of society. The primary objective was to make the land affordable to all income groups and to allow all land uses. Households in Navi Mumbai are divided into various income categories, especially for the purpose of housing calculation (EWS is the economically weaker section, LIG is low-income group, MIG is the middle income group, and HIG is the high-income group). This is being used to achieve cross subsidisation. The higher income groups would pay a surcharge for housing, which would subsidise housing for the lower income groups. CIDCO decided to use a maximum surcharge of 15% on housing for highest income to compensate for a maximum subsidy of 45% to lowest income groups. Between 1970 and 1990, CIDCO was prime supplier of fully constructed affordable houses under conventional approach to the EWS, LIG, MIG and to some extent HIG.

Year CIDCO % Private % Total Up to 1980 6724 6 1121 1 7845 1981-1985 37670 31 5100 5 42770 1986-1990 19420 16 11525 11 30945 1991-1995 27817 23 16625 16 44442 1996-2000 17341 15 29577 29 46918 2001-2007 10488 9 38042 37 48530 Total 119460 100 101990 (68%) 100 221450 (82%) (99.6%) Under Construction 440 (0.4%) 48586* (32%) 49026 (18%) Total 119900 44% 150576 56% 270476

CIDCO has constructed about 123,577 of housing stock in the city, out of which 51% of housing for EWS / LIG, while 26% was reserved for MIG and 23% for HIG. The emphasis was on providing affordable housing for EWS. / LIG

The total housing stock created in Navi Mumbai is about 2,25,000 units, out of which 1,23,577 units are built by CIDCO and rest by private sector. About 50,000 houses are under construction by private developers. Thus, so far there are about 2.75 lakhs houses in Navi Mumbai including those under construction. About 74% of the households own their houses in Navi Mumbai.

CIDCO constructed houses for EWS under Bombay Urban Development Project (BUDP) I, II and III in Airoli, Kopar Khairane, Kharghar, Nerul, Kalamboli and New Panvel. Some ambitious housing projects were also undertaken by the Corporation for different income groups i.e. Gharkul and Spaghetti for LIG, and MIG, Millennium Towers for MIG and Seawoods Estate for HIG like Non Resident Indians.

Seawoods Estate

The Phase-I, developed in the year 1996, consisted of 46 towers and 1,534 apartments.

Initially planned for NRIs, these apartments are now being offered to resident Indians too.

Seawoods Estate-II

Considering the high demand for Higher Income Group Apartments on the Palm Beach Marg, CIDCO has planned and taken up the construction of the remaining apartments of the Seawoods Estate in the year 2007.

The project consists of four buildings with 252 apartments and offers 2 BHK, 3 BHK, duplex and penthouse apartments.

Gharkul

CIDCO came up with the housing project ‘Gharkul’ in the year 2000. It was an ambitious project of 5,000 houses.Phase-I consisted of A, B and C type Condominiums with 1,152 houses, whereas Phase-II consisted of D type Condominiums with 240 houses.

Facilities

Gharkul is a complex with open spaces and gardens. It is 3 kilometers from Kharghar Railway station. There is another big complex neighbouring to it called Spaghetti Complex. There is school shopping complex inside and DAV Public School nearby.