Dharavi, Mumbai, India

Cards (3)

  • Dharavi is home to more than one million people, making it Asia's largest informal settlement, located on prime real estate in the centre of Mumbai
  • Dharavi is a thriving hub of small-scale manufacturing industries, producing leather goods, aluminium bricks and pottery - also recycling plastics for domestic and international markets.
  • The state government has a £1.1 billion plan to redevelop the area and transform it into a modern township, complete with proper housing and shopping complexes, hospitals and schools