Hema Malini got prime land worth crores for just Rs 70,000

A month after the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra allotted a 2,000 sq mt land to actor-politician Hema Malini for setting up a dance academy, an RTI query has revealed that the plot was given away at a meagre sum of Rs 70,000, whereas the actual price is in several crores. On December 29, 2015, Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse had issued the order giving permission to enable her set up an academy and a full-fledge cultural complex to impart training in classical and experimental music, arts and dance. The property is located at Ambivali-Oshivara at the prime Andheri western suburbs of Mumbai. "The government has worked wonders and this can be seen from a 2,000 sq mt land was given away for a pittance Rs 70,000 at the rate of Rs 35 per sq mt for a land currently valued in crores,” RTI activist Anil Galgali said. DHNS