Dharavi redevelopment: Survey for identifying rehabilitation eligibility to start from March 18

In order to address concerns of Dharavi redevelopment, a toll-free number- 1800-268-8888 has been activated to respond to the queries and concerns of Dharavikars.

Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd (DRPPL), a joint venture between the Government of Maharashtra and the Adani Group, on March 11 said that it will begin the survey to collect data from lakhs of informal tenement residents from March 18.

The data will be used by the state government to determine their rehabilitation eligibility criteria under the proposed redevelopment project.

The survey will also create, for first time ever, a ‘Digital Dharavi,’ an advanced library of one of the world’s largest informal settlements, the company said in the statement.

"It is the beginning of transforming Dharavi into a worldclass township, a state-of-the-art city within Mumbai. We urge all Dharavikars to support this exercise, which will enable us to execute the rehabilitation process and ultimately provide them with their dream home,” said a DRPPL spokesperson.

According to the company, the survey will begin from Kamla Raman Nagar, with a unique number being given to each informal tenement. This will be followed by laser mapping of the respective lane, known as ‘Lidar Survey.’ A trained team will visit every tenement with an indigenously developed application to scan documents.

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A toll-free number- 1800-268-8888 has been activated to respond to the queries and concerns of Dharavikars.

The DRPPL had on January 1 announced that it was partnering with renowned architect Hafeez Contractor for its ambitious Dharavi project, which involves redevelopment and rehabilitation of nearly 1 million residents in one of Asia’s largest slum clusters.

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The project timeline for rehabilitation of eligible slum dwellers is seven years and it is expected that the entire project will take 17 years to turn into a reality. In November 2022, Adani Group was declared the winner of the Dharavi redevelopment project. The Group had won the bid by promising an initial investment of Rs 5,069 crore for the over Rs 20,000-crore project.

Dharavi came into the spotlight as one of the locations where the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire was shot. Overall, the Dharavi revamp will have a timeline of 17 years, of which seven years will be for the construction of homes under the rehab component.