Mumbai Dharavi Slums

Question 1

What were they planning to do after bulldozing Dharavi?

Answer 1

Give 57,000 families 250ft of accommodation in the form of 7-storey flats, each with its own water and electricity.

Question 2

Why didn’t the residents trust the government anymore?

Answer 2

As many families had had their homes bulldozed before with no replacement or accommodation provided after.

Question 3

What is the Mahim Creek?

Answer 3

The creek in Mumbai which over 100s of residents use as a public toilet.

Question 4

Which TNC wanted to invest in India, opposite Mumbai?

Answer 4

Cadbury’s Schwepps

Question 5

Why did the locals say that squatting in front of their houses to go toilet was better?

Answer 5

As otherwise you would waste water on flushing toilets.

Question 6

What is the environmental QoL there?

Answer 6

Sprawl means lack of green space
Congestion from rapid transport growth
More pollution
More urbanisation & industrailisation = more waste, landfill, incinceration
Bad water quality

Question 7

What strategies are their to tackle the issues?

Answer 7

Recylcing
Pottery providing jobs
Sweatshops providing jobs
Urban 'renewal' and upgrading houses to demolish slums
Hindu Temple

Question 8

How was the scheme a success?

Answer 8

Sweatshops allowed people to make money for their family

Recycling is well ahead of its time

Question 9

What are the negatives of the scheme?

Answer 9

People liked their lives in the slums and didn’t want change
Loss of trust in gov
Own toilet wastes water
Just turning it into a vertical slum doesn’t make it better
People lived their since birth so don’t want to change it