Mumbai: Kurla dairy land will be used for ineligible Dharavi residents’ rehabilitation
MUMBAI: Around 85,000 slum households ineligible for free housing will be rehabilitated in rental housing outside Dharavi. On Tuesday, the state cabinet formally approved the transfer of 21.25 acres of Kurla dairy land to the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. In a press release, the govt said 8.5 lakh people are to be rehabilitated under the project, of whom five lakh will be rehabilitated in Dharavi and 3.5 lakh outside the Dharavi Notified Area (DNA). In a presentation of the master plan to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis last week, it was mentioned that 4.85 lakh people will be rehabilitated in Dharavi Notified…