Asia’s Largest Slum Redevelopment Mapped with Drones, LiDAR
The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) has adopted state-of-the-art technologies to survey and document Asia’s largest slum, a first for any slum rehabilitation project in India, officials said. The 620 acres of densely crowded Dharavi slums are being mapped using drones and remote sensing technology called Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). With a redevelopment project of […]
SRA Revives Tender for Santacruz Slum Redevelopment with Extended Deadline
Om Namo Sujalam Sufalam Society is a slum colony in Santacruz East with approximately 1,000 tenements, including residential and commercial units. The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) has issued a tender asking for bids for its rehabilitation. The colony’s redevelopment efforts began at least 39 years ago, but they were put on hold because of a […]
NAREDCO Seeks 5,000 Slum Redevelopment Projects from State
The National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has formally asked the state government authorities to assign 5,000 slum redevelopment projects to the industry group, in response to Maharashtra Housing Minister Atul Save’s call for real estate developers to participate in the state government’s slum redevelopment process through various agencies. The minister made this urgent appeal […]
Piyush Goyal Accelerates North Mumbai Slum Redevelopment; 1K+ Families Receive House Allocation Letters
In a key step towards improving the quality of life for North Mumbai’s slum inhabitants, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry and North Mumbai MP Piyush Goyal handed over allocation letters for new homes to over 1,000 families living in the slum region. These 1,000 dwellings are in addition to the 1,200 already handed over […]
North Mumbai Set to Establish New Standards for Slum Redevelopment
Over 1,000 people have received house allocation letters as part of the Slum Redevelopment Plan. We guarantee that every family moves into a clean, sanitary, and fully furnished home with vital facilities such as restrooms, kitchens, and access to clean water, considerably improving their living level. With such in-situ rehabilitation of slum residents in their […]
Slum Redevelopment Homes Have Expanded Over the Years
This week marks the half-year milestone since the start of the eligibility survey for the rehabilitation of one of the biggest slums in Asia. Thus far, surveys have been conducted among the occupants of around 14,000 tenements out of 300,000 and roughly 40,000 structures in Dharavi. It is anticipated that the exercise will be finished […]
MMRDA requests a waiver of the land premium for the renovation of the Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar slum
In order to reconstruct the Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar slum project in Ghatkopar, government land is needed, and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has suggested to the government that the premium payment be waived. The Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar Slum Redevelopment project covers 331,495.44 square meters, of which the state government owns a portion and […]
Slum Redevelopment: Seven Government Agencies Will Head Up This Project, Despite SRA Work Delays
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday ordered seven government organizations to take up the duty of building 2,20,889 units across 223 delayed rehabilitation schemes, as the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) in Mumbai is experiencing delays in its work. The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Maharashtra […]
CSEP report on PMAY: Insufficient funding and negligible slum rehabilitation
A recent working paper by the policy think tank Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) highlighted a number of problems with the union government’s flagship affordable urban housing scheme, including long delays, inadequate subsidies that force beneficiaries to seek out high-interest loans from non-institutional sources, and minimal slum redevelopment. PM Narendra Modi’s Union cabinet […]