The Dharavi Redevelopment Project is moving faster, and people who live in Sector-6 on railway land have been asked to participate and leave their houses. Soon, work will begin on building new rehab buildings. Residents have been given transit housing or help with their rent.
Dharavi Redevelopment Project Authority is getting ready
The first set of 11,000 apartments, each measuring 350 square feet, will be built in Dharavi’s Sector 6. This is the Matunga railway land that the developers bought from the Railways.
The Dharavi Redevelopment Project Authority is getting ready to start building the first set of buildings that will help people who live in the Dharavi slum area get back on their feet. The move moves the long-delayed project forward.
The DRP has asked people who live in the affected parts of Dharavi to complete their rental deals with developer Navbharat Mega Developers Pvt Ltd and leave their homes before the summer and the start of the school year in June 2026. It plans to build 11,000 tenements for people who need help after the rains.
The Maharashtra government, the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), and the Adani Group work together through Navbharat Mega Developers to do specific projects.
The first group of 11,000 tenements, each 350 square feet, will be built in Dharavi’s Sector 6. This is the Matunga railway land that was bought from the Indian Railways in stages.
It’s not hard to understand Sector 6. We got the land from the Railways, and there are a few empty spots on it. So, we thought that starting here would give the whole project a boost, said an anonymous state government official who was involved with the project.
The first idea for the Dharavi makeover came up in 2003, but the project has had false starts since then. The Adani Group won the bid for the project in 2022, and the state government officially gave the contract to the conglomerate in 2023. The NMDPL has been given seven years to finish the repair, which will end in 2032.
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Getting ready
The state government says that Dharavi covers 259 hectares, with 173.9 hectares set aside for rebuilding. At the moment, slums are thought to cover 147.4 hectares.
On Tuesday, the DRP put an ad in the media asking people who live in Sector 6—specifically, people from the areas of Ganesh Nagar-Meghwadi, SVP Nagar, Azad Nagar, and Kamla Raman Nagar—to come forward and help sign rental agreements.
At the Matunga Labour Camp in Dharavi, the DRP has set up a center to help people who live in slums. The Dharavi Redevelopment Project is starting to build in Sector 6, and the goal is to make 11,000 rehabilitation tenements. People who live there are asked to leave by June 2026. The long-delayed project, which is being led by Navbharat Mega Developers (Adani Group and state companies), will give qualified people 350-square-foot homes and is expected to be finished by 2032.
The official said that the DRP had finished the study to see which people were eligible for free in-situ living. The rules of the project said that people who lived in hutments that were built on or before January 1, 2000, would be given free 350-square-foot houses in Dharavi.
People who lived in buildings built between January 1, 2000, and January 1, 2011, would be able to get homes outside of Dharavi and in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) for Rs. 2.5 lakh through the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) plan. They will also be given the opportunity to rent a home.
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The DRP has not yet finished the study of the whole slum sprawl
As of last month, only 91,000 of the over one lakh tenements in Dharavi that needed to be scanned had participated. The other 13,000 to 20,000 would not even let DRP officials number their homes for the survey.
Out of the 91,000 or so hutments that participated, 24,000 did not give all the necessary paperwork.
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