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State to frame laws to stop trusts from selling land
Mumbai: The state government is framing a law that will no more allow charitable trusts from using a land given to them at concessional rates for other purposes, minister of state for law Hassan Mushrif told the legislative Assembly on Thursday.
CM Vilasrao Deshmukh added that the new law will allow criminal proceedings, which the current law covering charities does not. The CM and Mushrif were responding to a calling-attention motion tabled by MLAs over the closure of MVLU and Chinai colleges, Andheri (E). The management, common for both the institutions, had sought permission from the education department to shut down the colleges in June 2007. They wanted to sell the land on which the colleges are located to a builder.However, when the management was denied permission, the officials declared that the institutions will be closed in six months. The state then had appointed an administrator to look over the matter and the state has now asked for a report and will take a decision within two weeks, Mushrif said. TNN |
