Enter a cramped & dirty alley of the Dharavi slum and you will observe children playing in the midst of filth
and squalor and adults busy with their daily chores with equanimity, resigned to their fate. Paradoxically, the 600,000 inhabitants of the world’s worst slum (where over 800 people use one toilet) have no urge to give up their tiny and dingy hovels in-lieu of promises of better living conditions. It would be egregiously wrong to suggest that Dharavi residents have no dreams & aspirations, because if this was true, they would not have owned televisions, mobiles and motorbikes and we wouldn’t have witnessed them yearning to be Bollywood stars like Govinda & Madhuri Dixit. They probably keep their aspirations for a clean living environment under a lid, because they know that land sharks are waiting in the wings to grab their land and give them peanuts in return. With the Maharashtra government once again promising to facelift the slums, the apprehensions of being taken for a ride are once again resurfacing among the majority of residents. In a recent move, the government of Maharashtra has invited bids for the make-over of Dharavi (the slum will be broken down and about 57,000 families residing their will be given apartments of 225 square feet in high rise buildings with modern facilities & sanitation).
and squalor and adults busy with their daily chores with equanimity, resigned to their fate. Paradoxically, the 600,000 inhabitants of the world’s worst slum (where over 800 people use one toilet) have no urge to give up their tiny and dingy hovels in-lieu of promises of better living conditions. It would be egregiously wrong to suggest that Dharavi residents have no dreams & aspirations, because if this was true, they would not have owned televisions, mobiles and motorbikes and we wouldn’t have witnessed them yearning to be Bollywood stars like Govinda & Madhuri Dixit. They probably keep their aspirations for a clean living environment under a lid, because they know that land sharks are waiting in the wings to grab their land and give them peanuts in return. With the Maharashtra government once again promising to facelift the slums, the apprehensions of being taken for a ride are once again resurfacing among the majority of residents. In a recent move, the government of Maharashtra has invited bids for the make-over of Dharavi (the slum will be broken down and about 57,000 families residing their will be given apartments of 225 square feet in high rise buildings with modern facilities & sanitation).Home Campus Tour Contact Us Sitemap IIPM Think Tank IIPM National Brochure IIPM in Media India Today & Tomorrow
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