Geography- Dharavi Redevelopment Scheme

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Dharavi Redevelopment Scheme (Vision Mubia)

Advantages

  • 72,000 families rehomed
  • More santiary/ clean- plumbing
  • = less illness= less healthcare (an expense)
  • Strengthen road networks
  • =Businesses attracted= better paid jobs
  • Improve education = more money made in the future
  • Live and work in separate places= better health/ less cramped
  • $3000 per year generated from new commercial/ industrial areas.

Disadvantages

  • 28,000 families without home
  • =Possibly make new slum somewhere else.
  • Flatten slum
  • Ugly cramped high rises
  • New buildings too small (5-10 people get 21 square meters)
  • Ruin slum culture
  • People like working/ living in same area
  • Slum people now have to pay tax

Evaluation

I do not think that this plan should go ahead because it will destroy the slum way of life- which the squatters are happy with. It will ruin their culture, and strong communities and social ties. Thousands of people will be left homeless and have to relocate- probably to a new slum. This means that the plan in some ways, is not sustainable. Local authorities need to look after everyone, not just relocate people who lived their after the year 2000. The government is only trying to make money from these people. I think they should work with the people, improve the housing, not destroy and change it. They should improve sanitation and water supply's, but in the way people are happy with.

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This really helped me with my Geography work and helped me learn more about the tough life that they have in places like dharavi. 

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