India's Dharavi slum up for sale

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-05-31 07:24

High-rise buildings stand next to Dharavi, Asia's largest slum area located in Mumbai May 30, 2007. Authorities in India's financial capital invited a global tender on Wednesday to tear down Asia's biggest slum and replace it with gleaming new apartments, but the project is suspect in the eyes of most of it inhabitants. The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government said on Thursday.

High-rise buildings stand next to Dharavi, Asia's largest slum area located in Mumbai May 30, 2007. Authorities in India's financial capital invited a global tender on Wednesday to tear down Asia's biggest slum and replace it with gleaming new apartments, but the project is suspect in the eyes of most of it inhabitants. The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government said on Thursday.[Reuters]


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