Residents of Dharavi, India's largest slum, are worried about a new development project that might see thousands of residents displaced.
Hussain Indorewala is an urban researcher and assistant professor at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies. He predicts that the redevelopment project will move households onto a smaller part of the land — about half the size of the current slum.Nothing is Foreign
Sonu Shah lives in one room with his wife and kids. He earns a daily wage by working with plaster. He is one of the residentsspoke with who say they want better living conditions and support redevelopment. But they are concerned about what that will look like in the hands of the Adani Group, which is currently embroiled in its own controversy.
"If there is a need to break down the houses in Dharavi, they can, but they should construct and give us the house at the exact same place," Shah said. "We shouldn't be thrown here and there. If they send us someplace else, then it will affect our livelihoods, children's education, everything." At the same time, Shah is concerned about an exposed electrical wire above his home. It has an 11,000 voltage current — and it runs right above the spot where children play.
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