A recent study revealed that the land occupied by slums in Mumbai decreased by 8.6% between 2005 and 2022. While some slums ...

MUMBAI – In Dharavi, India’s biggest slum ... many also prefer to call it an informal settlement rather than a slum. The Patil family home – which has space only for the barest of ...

Dharavi is one of the biggest slum areas in the world. An estimate of 1 million people live in this slum in Mumbai which is spread across an areas of over 500 acres. The slums were established ...

In a nutshell, TDR is a property development tool which has been ruthlessly financialised in Mumbai ... of any slum or informal settlement, let alone one as massive and complex as Dharavi.

It would be a disaster. That’s what everyone thought when coronavirus claimed its first victim in Dharavi slum, in Mumbai, India. It seemed almost sure that its crowded streets would become a ...

Artisans in Kumbharwada, part of Dharavi, fear displacement due ... The pottery business changed as slums mushroomed around the settlement, and the open fields at their periphery transformed ...

Mumbai is an important port city on the northwest coast of India and is the state capital of Maharashtra. It operates as the commercial capital of India, it is important for manufacturing and ...

Dharavi, the locality in Mumbai is in the news more than often for housing the biggest slum in India. We hardly look past that But it’s time we did. A group of teenage girls needs us to.

In the last 48 hours, M-East Ward of Mumbai — which constitutes ... up in just two days of testing. The slums here are more densely populated then Dharavi and the population suffers from ...