Mumbai slums | Not a lot to dwell on

With a watch on the polls, the Maharashtra authorities pronounces a number of steps for these lined beneath Mumbai’s slum redevelopment tasks. But stalled tasks and an alleged pro-builder bias are undoing any good intent

REDOING SHANTYTOWN: A swathe of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, with tenement highrises for residents in its midst. (Photo: Milind Shelte)

Mumbai,ISSUE DATE: Oct 9, 2023 | UPDATED: Sep 29, 2023 19:15 IST

With the Lok Sabha and state meeting polls in 2024 drawing close to, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) authorities in Maharashtra goes all-out to woo the highly effective slum-dweller vote financial institution in Mumbai. The state authorities has determined to allot residences in slum redevelop­ment schemes at Rs 2.5 lakh to residents of shanties which have come up between 2000 and 2011. It is estimated that this can cowl round 1.6-1.8 million folks as their slums are redeveloped within the coming years. Slum-dwellers whose homes had been constructed earlier than 2000 are legally protected and eligible at no cost housing. Many are housed in 300 sq. ft flats beneath Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) tasks.