Makeover pangs grip Dharavi as it readies to redevelop

In the last week of November, Adani Properties Pvt. Ltd, an Adani Group company, won the bid to carry out what could be the world’s largest urban renewal project: the redevelopment of Dharavi

Asia’s largest slum, situated in the heart of India’s financial capital of Mumbai, Dharavi is spread across 259 hectares. It is home to nearly one million people and thousands of commercial units with an estimated turnover of $1 billion. The plans to redevelop Dharavi have been mooted since 2004 but they have fallen through largely because of the scale, magnitude and complexity of the project

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Source: Mint

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