MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani aims to convert Mumbai's Dharavi slum into a modern city hub, while acknowledging that resettling its 1 million residents will be a challenging task.

However, it will not be easy for the Maharashtra government to go ahead with the plan. “Dharavi is not an area of contention and confusion on the basis of costs alone. The biggest question is of land ...

MUMBAI: The final master plan for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) will be published in the next one month, outlining the proposed land use patterns across 590 acres. The blueprint for the ...

MUMBAI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's plan to rehouse a million people living in one of Asia's biggest slums is fuelling worries among residents about his capacity to deliver ...

Dharavi redevelopment update: The Maharashtra Government has handed over possession of a 118-acre land parcel at Mukteshwar in the Malvani area of Malad ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Residents of Mumbai's sprawling Dharavi slum face down a powerful politician eyeing their community for a real estate development in the blockbuster "Kaala", ...

The redevelopment of Dharavi is underway -- and in his spacious city-centre office, SVR Srinivas insists the project will be exemplary. "This is the world's largest urban renewal project," said the ...

The Maharashtra government is planning to shift over 50,000 Dharavi residents to a plot near Mumbai’s Deonar landfill as part of the Adani-led redevelopment project, raising serious environmental and ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A slum portrayed in the award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" is at the center of a land controversy in Mumbai that has highlighted the challenges facing a booming India as it ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...