Mumbai’s Charity Commissioner rejected UCNITA’s application seeking permission to redevelop Wilson High School’s historic Girgaon property. The order said the trust failed to meet requirements under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act and did not prove the proposal benefited beneficiaries.
Mumbai: The Charity Commissioner's office in Mumbai has rejected an application seeking permission to redevelop and alienate the historic Wilson High School property at Girgaon, holding that the applicant failed to satisfy the statutory requirements under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, 1950.
Order passed on July 9 by Joint Charity Commissioner Mahesh Lambe
In an order passed on July 9, Joint Charity Commissioner Mahesh Balkrishna Lambe dismissed the application filed by the United Church of Northern India Trust Association (UCNITA) under Section 36(1)(a) of the Act.
The application, filed on behalf of UCNITA by former Wilson College principal Dr Vishwas J. Sirwaiya, sought permission to redevelop the 3,824.45 sq m Wilson High School property in Girgaon. Under the proposed arrangement, the developer would have retained the free-sale residential and commercial components of the new building while constructing a new school building and paying ₹35.50 crore to the trust.
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