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Mumbai: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will launch
the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority’s
(MMRDA) rehabilitation program for slum-dwellers in
Mumbai on December 20.The program plans to allot 60,000
flats, made under a special program, to the slum-dwellers.
The program is scheduled to be held at Mankurd Link
Road near Chembur. Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of
the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the Center
and the President of the Congress Party that has a coalition
government in Maharashtra.
Others who are expected to be present at the program
are Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Revenue
Minister Narayan Rane, State Congress Chief Prabha Rau,
AICC General Secretary Margaret Alva and Mumbai Regional
Congress Committee (MRCC) President Gurudas Kamat.
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