Lok Sabha polls: Dharavi redevelopment gives Sena (Shinde) upper hand
Mumbai once had the dubious distinction of being Asia's largest slum. Then, an embarrassed Mumbai Municipal Corporation claimed Orangi in the Pakistani port city of Karachi has inherited that rather ignominious moniker.
However, Dharavi still is home to a very large number of people — more than half a million — jostling for meagre resources on a relatively tiny patch of land — of about 550 acres. And, the area remains central to the outcome of the parliamentary polls in the Mumbai South Central seat.
Dharavi is populated largely with 50 to 70 square foot homes, interspersed with leather and plastic recycling and pottery and other small-scale units. Successive state governments for several decades have been promising to redevelop Dharavi, which is part of the Mumbai south central constituency.
The Adani Group has won the bid to redevelop the project. It would construct several storeyed towers of 350 square feet homes for the slum residents.
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The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Sena, however, has opposed the project claiming irregularities and
