DHARAVI REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT

The Dharavi slum redevelopment project involves the Adani group building houses for residents, with land transferred to Maharashtra government departments, not Adani. Officials rejected claims of land grab, emphasising that the land remains with gov...

Dharavi has been one of the most talked-about slums in India. The Mumbai slum, standing on a prime location in the city, is the largest in Asia and home to over 8 lakh people.

Dharavi, once Asia's largest slum, remains central to Mumbai's South Central parliamentary polls due to redevelopment plans. The Adani Group's bid to redevelop with 350 sq ft homes faces opposition from the Uddhav Thackeray faction, demanding 450 sq...

“Nobody likes to live in slums, it’s a compulsion. It’s on us how we can get them out of the slums, give them a life of dignity and self-respect. We need to balance all interests and come up with a solution that takes care of all Mumbaikars includin...

The Adani Group-led Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd (DRPPL) will start the survey to collect data from informal tenement residents of Dharavi from March 18. This data will be used by the state government to determine rehabilitation eligibility...

A specially developed app will be used to capture the data and every informal settlement will be given a unique number, which will be followed with laser mapping of each lane. Under the redevelopment plan, each tenement holder will be provided with ...

Dharavi Redevelopment Project faces a hurdle as the Railway Land Development Authority (RLDA) refuses to allow sub-leasing of the crucial 47.5 acres of railway land earmarked for the project. The DRPPL argues that, as state government bodies, DRP/SR...

The survey will be crucial in deciding who among the residents of the Dharavi slum will be eligible to receive a free home in the area that is being redeveloped. However, authorities have struggled for decades to fix up the area, which covers 640 ac...

Adani Group will begin mapping Dharavi as part of a government contract to redevelop the area. The conglomerate plans to complete the $3 billion project over the next seven years. However, the renovation faces political opposition and legal hurdles....

Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd (DRPPL), led by the Adani Group, is working on the project in collaboration with architect Hafeez Contractor, US-based transdisciplinary design firm Sasaki, and UK-based international consulting firm Buro Happol...

In a statement, the group, which has promised to invest Rs 21,000 crore in the project, said it roped in design firm Sasaki, consultancy firm Buro Happold as design planners for the project as well as some experts from Singapore Housing Development ...

The joint venture, Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRPPL), said on Monday it was partnering with architect Hafeez Contractor who has done many social housing projects, U.S. design firm Sasaki, and consultancy firm Buro Happold from the UK for the red...

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray expressed concern over the redevelopment of Dharavi, calling it detrimental to Mumbai and Maharashtra. Thackeray dismissed the BJP's label of their protest march as a "settlement morcha" and accused the govern...

Dharavi Redevelopment Project on Saturday said the Dharavi slum redevelopment project was awarded to it by the previous Congress-Shiv Sena coalition government (Maha Vikas Aghadi or MVA) through a fair and open international bidding. In a statement,...

The TDR mechanism allows transfer of unused development rights from one zone to another and these rights can be bought by developers at a certain price to increase their permissible development in a project depending on the location. In the prevaili...

Adani Group-led SPV Adani Properties has accused vested interests of delaying the urban transformation work for Asia's largest slum in Mumbai. The state government has made the use of 40% transferable development rights (TDRs) from the Dharavi redev...

The Adani Group has defended the alleged unfair bidding process of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project, stating that the Maharashtra government has allowed the use of Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) without indexation. The group clarified that th...

The Congress has been targeting the Adani group, accusing it of benefitting from the BJP government and has been demanding a JPC probe into the allegations made by by a US Research group Hindenburg. The business conglomerate has denied any wrongdoin...

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's property unit has formed a joint venture with Mumbai's slum rehabilitation authority to redevelop the Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums. The formation of the entity, Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd, is a cr...