On this day, we were at Sir J.J school of architecture in the morning and received a lecture from two professors at the university about the present situation at dharavi and the proposed plan. He made us to realise that in mumbai, there are several layers which are not logically related and these complexity emerges from the several communities. In the present situation, mumbai is one of the international financial power of south east asia. Dharavi is close to the airport and also close to bandra business district. It provides diverse economic opportunities and removing dharavi will reduce this. 68% of total employment in mumbai is in informal sector. dharavi generates 40% of state domestic product. A land in bombay is around 100,000 ruppies/square feet which is the most notable change in bombay. In the proposal for Dharavi redevelopment, the map of dharavi was made not because the government loves the people but because it's the biggest real estate opportunity for the government. The government is the rightful owner of these lands because most of the slums in mumbai are squatter settlements which means illegal occupancy of land.
From these lectures, my interest was drawn to the fact that the proposed plan has not been accepted by himself and definitely the slum dwellers. His criticism was based on the destruction of the mosque on the proposed plan. he stressed that the mosques has to be kept. My critic however is that if the mosque should be retained, then other temples in dharavi too has to be retained. In short, one conclude say that proper analysis were not carried out before the proposed plan design (a dream of shanghai 2).
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