5.1 Slum Redevelopment Projects in Dharavi Table 1 Slum Redevelopment Projects in Dharavi
S. No
Project
Year
Salient Features
1
Slum Improvement Project
1972
Provision of essential amenities to the slum, like water, electricity, latrines and sewage disposal.
2
Slum Improvement Project (continued)
1976
The main motive of this was to provide the people living in a slum with "legitimate status". In order to do this, the committee issued photo identities.
1985
Renting out the land of slum areas to the corporate groups at a very affordable price, providing loans for improving houses and the environment.
3
Slum Upgradation Project and PMGP (Prime minister's grant project)
4
Slum Rehabilitation Scheme
1995
Monitoring of the activities was regulated, development rights were transferred in order to attract private developers. The committee was more structured as compared to how they previously worked.
5
Dharavi Redevelopment Project
2004
Providing Dharavi's residents with new houses to be freed from slum areas and further selling the land for private developments.
1.Slum Improvement Project Maharashtra Slum Area Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment Act declared Dharavi as a slum in 1971. In 1972, SIP was the first development plan for Dharavi. Under this programme, all the basic services water, electricity, latrines and sewage disposal were proposed to the slum area. However, the plan could not be successful because there was no comprehensive census on the slums of Mumbai (Chatterji, 2005). Most of the sewer and water lines were laid down around the SionMahim-Link (90- and 60-feet connecting roads in Dharavi) till 1974. Also, a transit camp was proposed and executed for the affecting slum dwellers due to the removal of their houses for the newly proposed roads (Yumpu.com, 2010).
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