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Development projects in dharavi
information about development projects in dharavi. HannibalLecter5 (talk) 00:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC) Dharavi is one square mile
 * more info on the development project is needed in this article, or perhaps even a separate one. It's pretty controversial, so watch the bias. 24.125.38.175 (talk) 02:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC) R.E.D.

Asia's largest slum
Dharavi is Asia's largest slum, according to the CIA and BBC - not Orangi 86.156.212.59 (talk) 16:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/dharavi_slum/html/dharavi_slum_intro.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.212.59 (talk) 16:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC) :Lost that title in 2009. The slum cannot keep its title alive. Bcs09 (talk) 12:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Size
According to Time Asia (link in footnote 5 on the article page) and this Reuters reporter http://www.livemint.com/2007/07/06003616/Shantytowns-emerge-targets-fo.html the size of the area is 216,5 hectares, not 175. 84.177.106.15 (talk) 14:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


 * it is still the largest like the person above has pointed out according to bbc. since there are many slums in asia, the sentence will just be left as one of the largest. HannibalLecter5 (talk) 00:01, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Why is Justin Bieber sooo fit i went out with him naha ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.14.108 (talk) 19:14, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

why do plople in dharavi need accomodation of about 400 sqft with basic facilities like health care center better transport and so on....
by Anand...

The reason behind this demand is the profit which the redevelopment authority and the political power wants to earn from the govt if the residents agree to accomodate in the flat less than 300sqft the profit of these authority will increase by 75-90% and they can sell more commercial pocession for the private users as the area is the best in the entire city for both commercial and resedential users as dharavi surrounded by 4 stations like sion ,mahim,matunga and bandra and the roadways which connects western exprees and eastern express highway towards the town the importance of the area is known to the redevelopment authority not to the government so please the government may give its concern to this place other wise the political and redevelopment authority may leave the residents help less .The only solution for this redevlopment is to take the survey from the people living in dharavi and generate more ideas and boost them with the support of good govt approved and ngo involvedwith them. And the involvement of ngo is more important for the cause of people in dharavi beacuase after the redevelopment nothing can be done since it involves crore of rupees to this project. please add more solution to this article ....thank you

Comparative slums
It was recently reported that Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan is currently the largest slum in South Asia, after surpassing the size of Dharavi in Mumbai, India, although while Orangi is approximately 22 sqmi in area, Dharavi is less than one square mile with approximately one million inhabitants, making Orangi far less dense. --92.9.73.196 (talk) 18:39, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done: The first two sources are the same National Geographic article and the third source is unusable, refering back to a table in a Wikipedia image. The NG article mentions Orangi Town once and makes no claim of recentness or size or relative density. Celestra (talk) 19:16, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

The map comparing the slums
IMO this map is totally useless, since the graphics on it are not explained. Even the hyperlink pointing to Jaon Davis does not explain what the brown and yellow circles mean, also it is unclear what the circles itself are (Slums, yes, but where, for example, is AN?). I suggest to remove that map... Sunstarfire (talk) 08:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Area
I don't have a better source on size but these sentences at the begining of the article are hard to parse and don't seem to be internally consistent: Mujinga (talk) 21:07, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Dharavi has an area of just over 2.1 square kilometres (0.81 sq mi; 520 acres)[3] and a population of about 700,000. With a population density of over 277,136/km2 (717,780/sq mi), Dharavi is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

The numbers also do not make sense. How can you have a populaton density of 277 people per square meter when the buildings are only a few storeys tall? There is physically not enough room. It seems to me like the population numbers must be gross overestimations, or the area number a gross underestimate. Spacemonger (talk) 16:27, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Spacemonder, you are not quite correct. A square kilometre is 1000m X 1000m, so one million square metres. 2.1 square kilometres is thus 2.1 million square metres. Divide 700,000 people by 2.1 million square metres, and the density is thus 0.3 people per square metre.

Electricity?
Photos of the area show no power cables. So does it have electricity? This is particularly intriguing, when those same photos show a satellite TV dish on about every 10th building. 2001:8003:E490:7D01:611D:F654:E641:D137 (talk) 07:13, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

New Development.
Not sure how legal or appropriate this is, but the following story is copied directly from a CNN article today (30th November 2022):

The real estate unit of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s Adani Enterprises has won the right to redevelop India’s largest slum, Mumbai’s Dharavi neighborhood, with a 50 billion rupee ($612 million) bid, a state official said on Tuesday. Believed to be the largest slum in Asia, Dharavi is a crowded area that houses thousands of poor families in cramped quarters in the center of India’s financial capital. Many residents have no access to running water or clean toilets. The redevelopment was first mooted in the 1980s as a way to develop valuable land while providing proper housing to those living there. Adani’s winning bid of 50 billion rupees was more than double that of real estate group DLF, which bid 20 billion rupees ($244.87 million), said SVR Srinivas, CEO of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project, a government enterprise in the western state of Maharashtra. “It will be a township - a city within a city, with mixed land use, both commercial and residential,” Srinivas told Reuters, describing the redevelopment, which will cover 625 acres (253 hectares) as “the world’s largest urban renewal scheme.” It is the latest mega-project taken on by ports-to-energy conglomerate Adani Enterprises, which already supplies electricity in Mumbai through listed unit Adani Transmission Ltd. ... The redevelopment of Dharavi will be the fourth project Adani Realty has taken on in Mumbai and the 24th across four cities, according to its website. 2001:8003:E490:7D01:611D:F654:E641:D137 (talk) 07:17, 30 November 2022 (UTC)