dharavi slums and housing
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* 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
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_h
ousing_in_India
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/
2007/05/dharavi-mumbai-
slum/jacobson-text
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2
014/apr/01/urbanist-guide-to-
dharavi-mumbai