Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Dharavi in Mumbai on Thursday and interacting with the locals there.
The master plan for the Dharavi redevelopment project—that is being formalised by the Adani-owned Navbharat Mega Developers Private Ltd which is also undertaking the project—will be completed in a month’s time, said officials in the know of the matter.
As many as 50,000 door-to-door surveys have been carried out as part of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project to identify eligible residents.
Once the survey is completed, authorities will determine the number of tenants who will be housed within Dharavi and those who will be relocated outside the notified area. As per the project’s terms, eligible Dharavi residents will be rehabilitated within the locality, while ineligible residents will be relocated to newly developed townships outside Dharavi.
So far, numbering has been completed for 85,000 tenements, while over 50,000 tenements have undergone door-to-door surveys.
IN CONTEXT: Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, has repeatedly targeted the Narendra Modi-led BJP government over its alleged links to the Adani conglomerate.
He has also been at the forefront of leading the charge on the Adani Group on the Hindenburg issue.
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Stalin as anti-BJP voice
IN his determined campaign to emerge as the voice of the South, and as the face of the opposition to the largely North-centric BJP, DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin will count Wednesday as a success.
Stalin, who has been taking on the Centre over its all-India projects such as one NEET for admission to medical colleges and the National Education Policy (NEP), managed to attract parties across the divisive political spectrum in Tamil Nadu to join him in opposing any delimitation based on population.
A delimitation leading to a change in the number of constituencies was last held in 1973. While the next one – over which the South is concerned – is due in 2026, it is unlikely to happen any time soon as the Census exercise that has to precede it is itself delayed.
At the all-party meeting held at the Secretariat Wednesday and chaired by him, Stalin said that a delimitation based on population would be “a direct attack on Tamil Nadu’s political representation in India’s democracy”. “The knife of constituency delimitation is hanging over South India’s head,” he said, adding that the 1971 Census should be the basis for any delimitation till at least 2056.
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Ahead of the Tamil Nadu elections next year, this could set the tone and narrative for Stalin and DMK.
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