Dharavi slums and Housing

* Slums are a squalid

and overcrowded urban

street or district

inhabited by very poor

people

* Illegal housing

consists of hunts or

shanties built on land

not owned by the

residents (i.e.

squatting)

* According to the United States ,one

billion people worldwide live in slums

* Roughly one third of world’s poor

population live in India

* 55% of population of Mumbai ,

approximately 7 million ,lives in slums

* Mumbai’s slums cover only 6-8% of the

city’s land with 55% of it’s people

* Dharavi in Mumbai is one of the

largest slums in the world

* With span more than 500 acres and

population between 3,00,000 to

1million

In the 19th

century , this area in

Mumbai was mangrove swamp

inhabited by Kohli fishermen

Soon swamp got filled in (by

coconut leaves, rotten fish, and

human waste) the kohli’s were

deprived of their fishing grounds

and soon shifted to bootlegging

liquor. But room became for others

The Kumbhkars from Gujrat

established a potter’s colony

The Tamils opened tannaries

The people of Uttar Pradesh worked

in booming textile industry

Dharavi is the most diverse

neighbourhood in Mumbai

With span more than 500acres and

population of 3,00,000 to 1 million

33% are Muslims

6% are Christians

60% are Hindus

20% of the Hindu population works in

animal skin production, tannaries, leather

goods ,and the rest are involved in

pottery, textile goods manufacturing,

retail and trade,distilleries and other

caste professions

Dharavi has numerous mosques,

temples, and churches. Badi masjid

is the oldest structure in this area

Dharavi is right between Western

and Central railway

Dharavi has Mithi river to it’s north,

Mahim and Bandra to it’s west and

to it’s south and east it has Sion

and Matunga

It’s location makes it vulnerable to

floods during monsoon

Per capita income of the residents

of Dharavi ranges between

Rs.31107 to Rs.124430

As of November 2006 ,there is only one toilet

per 1,440 residents in Dharavi

Mahim creek is used by the residents for

urination and defecation, leading to contagious

diseases

This area also suffers from inadequate drinking

facilities

First plague in Dharavi occurred in

1896

25 years later other epidemics also

occurred like, dysentry, typhoid,

cholera, leprosy, ameobiasis, and

also polio through recent years

Also epidemic of drug resistant

tuberclosis happened in the recent

years

Fire destroyed many slum

properties and caused injuries in

Januaury 2013

Massive floods occurred in 2006

There have been many plans since

1997

Companies from around the world

have bid to redevelop Dharavi,

including Lehman Brothers, Dubai's

Limitless and Singapore's Capitaland

Ltd

The latest urban redevelopment plan

proposed for the Dharavi area is

managed by American-trained

architect Mukesh Mehta

The plan involves the construction of

2,800,000 square metres of housing,

schools, parks and roads to serve the

57,000 families residing in the area, along

with 3,700,000 square metres of

residential and commercial space for

sale

There has been significant local

opposition to the plans, largely because

existing residents are due to receive only

25.0 square metres of land each. Also,

only those families who lived in the area

before 2000 are slated for resettlement.

Residents also fear that some of their

small businesses in the "informal" sector

may not be relocated under the

redevelopment plan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharavi

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dharavi-mumbai

Sakina Lokhandwala

Shoaib Mujawar

Zaid Shaikh

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