Salt Pans

Refer to the low lying marshy areas that abut the sea and were used for manufacturing of salt. These lands come under the control of an authority called Salt Commissioner.

In the city around 5500 acres of land has been demarcated as salt pans and as of now are designated as No Development Zone. Few of major salp pan landholders are: Walawalkars who own 882 acres of land between Nahur and Mulund, Mahesh Garodia who owns 500 acres between Kanjurmarg and Bhandup, Fali Bomanjee's family holds 467 acres of land in Kanjurmarg, Bhandup and Nahur. Sunil Majithia owns 180 acres at Trombay and Lalit Gandhi of Lok Group holds 178 acres in Makhurd.