Mumbai: Rahul Gandhi is also going to enter the Dharavi rehabilitation project today. The contract for this project has been given to the Adani Group. Rahul has been attacking on this issue from the past. That is why he can attack Adani. Rahul Gandhi is visiting Mumbai at a time when the state's budget session is going on.
Earlier, he came to Mumbai on the last day of campaigning for the Maharashtra assembly elections. During a press conference in BKC, he cornered Adani and BJP over the Dharavi project. Rahul said that the future of Dharavi is not safe. This project will harm the people of Dharavi.
He took out a poster, which had a map of Dharavi. Showing this, Rahul said that billionaires want Mumbai's land to go into their hands, it is estimated that one billionaire will be given one lakh crore rupees. BJP also retaliated on this and exposed the contract given to Adani by the Congress. Now after Rahul's entry into Dharavi, there are chances of a political battle breaking out again over Dharavi.
Asia's biggest scam: Varsha Gaikwad
Recently, Congress Party MP and Mumbai President Varsha Gaikwad had targeted the Central and Mahayuti government by calling the Dharavi project Asia's biggest scam. She had alleged that Adani will get a profit of Rs 1.5 lakh crore from this, while Dharavi residents will be treated unfairly.
Varsha said less than 70 thousand Dharavi residents will be rehabilitated here itself and the rest will be sent out of Mumbai. This is destruction of Dharavi, but the Modi government is silent. This fight is for the existence of Dharavi residents and Mumbai. The Congress Party will continue this struggle. Shiv Sena (UBT) is against Adani regarding this project.
Dharavi stands on a slice of prime land
Dharavi stands on a slice of prime land in the heart of Mumbai. It is just a stone’s throw from India’s most affluent business district, the Bandra-Kurla Complex, where commercial office premiums are among the highest in the country.
The sprawling slum, spread over 2.8 sq km, is home to an informal leather and pottery industry that employs over 100,000 people.
For this project, Adani Group won the tender by bidding Rs 5,069 crore. In the year 1999, the alliance of BJP and Shiv Sena had proposed to redevelop Dharavi for the first time. After this, in 2003-04, the state government came up with a redevelopment plan for Dharavi. The Dharavi redevelopment project is worth Rs 20 thousand crores and is expected to be completed in 17 years. The target is to settle the people living here in permanent houses in 7 years. More than 1 crore square feet of land will be used in this entire project.
95% of Dharavi's huts are smaller than 300 square feet
Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) has completed the numbering of about 84,000 huts and survey of more than 53,000 houses in Dharavi, Asia's largest and densely populated slum in Mumbai. According to the data of this survey, about 95% of the houses, shops and commercial structures are smaller than 300 square feet. Whereas the number of structures larger than this is only around 5%.
There is no exact figure on how many people live in Dharavi But it is estimated that 6 to 10 lakh people live here. So far, more than 53,000 houses and commercial establishments have been registered in Dharavi during the survey and 85,000 houses have been numbered. Apart from this, a total of more than 300 religious places exist in the area, out of which 90 have been identified.
Prakash Kumar Pandey
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