As Asia's biggest slum Dharavi votes, redevelopment not on its mind

In other slums alike, redevelopment has ceased to be a poll issue in the ongoing parliamentary elections in Mum­bai, the city where property pri­ces are out of bounds for many

For decades, Dharavi in Mumbai has always been referred to as the biggest slum in Asia, giving a sense that something in India is bigger than that in China. The only thing that can change Dharavi’s sobriquet for good is of course, redevelopment.
 
But what if the spanner in the wheel is the wheel itself? Dharavi, for long, has resisted its own redevelopment for various reasons, and is choosing status quo even today. Despite initiatives of successive governments to transform the slum cluster into tall residential towers, it is the residents themselves who are silently resisting change.
 
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