Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar has been on a fast for the last seven days in Golibar, Mumbai, to protest against the government's decision to hand over 140 acres of land to a private builder. Patkar has been demanding the removal of clause 3K which allows the government to take over land without seeking the consent of slum dwellers.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that Patkar held discussions with Maharashtra chief secretary Ratnakar Gaikwad for five hours on Wednesday the but talks remained inconclusive.
They also say that Gaikwad came close to accepting one of Patkar's demands that 19 settlements in Mumbai be declared as slums under the existing law of Maharashtra Slum Areas Act 1971.
She also wants implementation of Rajiv Awas Yojana in Mumbai. The formation of a subcommittee to look into irregularities was also discussed.
Patkar launched her indefinite hunger strike on May 20 and it entered its seventh day on Thursday
Few weeks back Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had scrapped two controversial Slum Rehabilitation Authority projects cleared under Clause 3K on Ashok Chavan's last day as Maharashtra chief minister.
Social activists Anna Hazare and Swami Agnivesh have expressed their solidarity with Patkar.
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