AJN 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.1283 OF 2009 Kanta Prasad Buddhu Jaiswar & Ors. ... Petitioners Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ... Respondents Ms. Gayatri Singh i/b Mr. Omar Khaiyam Shaikh for the petitioners. Ms. Anjali Helekar, A.G.P. for respondent 1. Mr. G.D. Utangale for respondent 2. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, JJ. DATED : 13TH NOVEMBER, 2009. P.C.:- 1. The grievance of the petitioners is that the respondents have refused to decide the eligibility of the petitioners on the ground that their structures do not fall AJN 2 within the boundary wall of the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme. The petitioners contend that they are wrongly not declared as Project Affected Persons or eligible slum dwellers. 2. In Tulsiwadi Navnirman Co-op. Housing Society Limited & Anr. v. State of Maharasthra & Ors., 2008 (1) Bom.C.R. 1, the Full Bench of this court was, inter alia, considering to what extent writ jurisdiction can be exercised in disputes between slum dwellers / encroachers and the local authority in the context of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966, the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement Clearance and Re- development) Act, 1971 and the Development Control Regulations. 3. In order to ensure that Slum Rehabilitation Schemes are implemented expeditiously and to resolve the complaints and disputes in connection with Slum Rehabilitation Schemes, the Full Bench directed the State AJN 3 to set up a monitoring agency / mechanism. We are informed by learned counsel for respondent 2 that accordingly, a High Power Committee has been appointed vide Notification dated 15/11/2007. 4. It would be appropriate, therefore, for the petitioners to approach the High Power Committee with their grievances. Learned counsel for the petitioners states that the petitioners would file a representation before the High Power Committee within a period of two weeks from today setting out their grievances. If such a representation is filed, the High Power Committee shall consider it in accordance with law. 5. We are informed by learned counsel for the petitioners that the huts of the petitioners have been demolished and today, they are homeless. If that is so, we expect the High Power Committee to decide the representation of the petitioners as expeditiously as possible and preferably within four months from the date AJN 4 of receipt of the representation of the petitioners. All contentions raised in the petition are kept open. 6. The petition is disposed of. [SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.] [SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, J.]