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Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has completed a survey of around 10,000 structures of the roughly two lakh-odd estimated hutments in Dharavi considered one of the worlds largest slums to determine eligibility for free housing under the project to revamp the slum sprawl into glitzy high-rises..
However, while officials are working towards the ambitious target, the fate of the much-delayed project once again hangs in the balance considering the politics around it, especially with assembly polls in Maharashtra being less than three months away..
By the end of March this year, the Dharavi redevelopment project authority started surveying the population of Dharavi to determine the residents eligibility for in-situ free housing as part of the project...
The states Dharavi redevelopment project authority has also sought land at multiple places in Mumbai to house residents found to be ineligible in the survey...
We are applying for environmental clearance to start the construction of the deliverables to the railways, the second official said.. Congresss Varsha Gaikwad, who was MLA of Dharavi until she got elected as MP of Mumbai North Central in June, has also criticised the plan to allot lands across Mumbai, including some salt pan land, to the Dharavi project to house ineligible residents...
