Overview

• Rohit Pawar alleges that in his first meeting as CIDCO chairman, Sanjay Shirsat overrode repeated rejections to allocate 15 acres to the Bivalkar family in 2024.
• The allocated plot is valued at roughly ₹5,000 crore and could have underwritten construction of approximately 10,000 homes under CIDCO’s PAP scheme.
• Pawar traced the dispute to colonial-era grants and noted a decades-long legal saga marked by successive CIDCO refusals, an October 2014 Bombay High Court ruling and a Supreme Court stay.
• The Maha Vikas Aghadi has called a protest march at the Navi Mumbai CIDCO office on August 20 demanding revocation of the allotment and Shirsat’s resignation.
• Multiple attempts to reach CIDCO vice-chairman Vijay Singhal and Minister Shirsat for comment were unanswered, and Pawar highlighted other integrity concerns including a cash-bag video and a stayed hotel auction linked to Shirsat’s son.