Dharavi relocation process has been a positive gain for Mumbai government
When 65-year-old Ranjana Kamble, who has lived for over two decades in a tiny shanty in Dharavi’s Shatabdi Nagar, moves into a brand new ‘1 BHK’ flat in a multi-storey building in the coming weeks, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan will no doubt want to present the relocation as a feather in the cap of the beleaguered Congress-NCP government.
But the 358 families’ new homes, which the Maharashtra government seeks to present as a success story, constitute precisely 0.6 percent of Dharavi’s households originally chalked into the grand Dharavi Redevelopment Project, costing over Rs 16,000 crore, as stakeholders and beneficiaries.
This relocation of the people of Dharavi into a 1 BHK flat is being considered to be one of the biggest success stories by the Maharashtra government. They have living in a very shady condition and now they get something which is like a dream to them. The dwellers of Dharavi are indeed happy in such a situation and this has definitely acted as a positive to the Mumbai government. This relocation process had taken some time to complete.
Source: The Indian Express
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