mid-day editorial: Don't break traditions just to build a few flats
Updated On: 19 January, 2018 06:09 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day correspondent
Yesterday, this paper ran an extensive report on Worli gaothan locals living in fear of their entire lives getting uprooted by a slum rehabilitation project in their village
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Yesterday, this paper ran an extensive report on Worli gaothan locals living in fear of their entire lives getting uprooted by a slum rehabilitation project in their village.
If the project is cleared, they will be classified as slum dwellers and given space in SRA buildings. But many of these locals currently live in sprawling homes of 1,000 square feet or more, and will not even get one-fourth the space in the SRA building. What's shocking fact is that actual slums dwellings on the periphery of these gaothans are being used to misguide and misrepresent the entire gaothan as a slum.
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