The BMC has finally approved the proposal to make a payment of Rs13.23 crore to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) as land cost and other fees for obtaining a no-objection certificate to redevelop the Krantiveer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Hospital at Kannamwar Nagar in Vikhroli. The civic body will invite tenders for the construction of a 500-bed super-speciality hospital once it received the NOC.

The BMC has started the payment process to MHADA after five years. The civic body had shut down the 100-bed hospital in 2018 after the building had been declared dilapidated. The hospital was shifted to a maternity home in Tagore Nagar, but locals allege it wasn’t operating at full capacity and as a result, they were forced to depend on Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar.