Slum Clearance Planning and Dharavi

Size of dharavi?

Just over 2.1km2(520 acres). 600 to 2,000 people per acre. 300,000 to 1 million people living there.

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Characteristics?

cramped huts, narrow dirty lanes, thriving small scale industries, colourful, sense of community.

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Positives?

cheap, mosques, informal shopping areas, informal work and formal.

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Negatives?

around 4,000 cases of diptera and typhoid a day, toxic waste that children play in, low paid jobs etc.

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What is the Mumbai Slum Resettlement scheme going to do?

it will be cleaning up the slums and moving residents into new houshing areas.

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How many has it resettled so far and what amenities does it come with?

100,000 (17,500 residential households). 18,000 shops and 100 community and cultural properties and 39 schools have been built. The residents get the own home as 95% don't own the land they live on.

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What are the Incremental Housing Strategies going to do?

develop informal slums into permanent residential areas where families are given the right to the land their new home is built upon. Support the ideas of locals.

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What will it include?

the flats have 14ft high ceilings and toilets are placed at the end of each floor.

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What is the Slum Rehabilitation Authority Plan going to do?

create blocks of flats for the slum dwellers move into where people will be registered with the authorities and pay taxes which will add extra services.

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What will it include?

Clean water with no more queues and sewage pipes. allows for waste management (people lose jobs as sorting rubbish), very small and cost £2 billion.

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What is the Mumbai Slum Electrification Project going to do?

Provide electricity to the slums. Many instead use bottled gas for cooking and heating which can implement health.

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What will it include?

Recently provided 10,000 slum dwellers with new/ upgraded electricity connections, allows for working/ education at night. Only affects 15%.

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What is the Mumbai Slum Sanitation Project going to do?

build gendered toilets for slum dwellers.

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What will it include?

Over 300 community toilet blocks have been built (5100 individual ). Affect up to 1 million slum dwellers.

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