\nThe end of\u00a0India\u2019s informal settlement problem begins with good promises
\nBombay, India \u2013 March 10, 2015: Group of children posing and looking curious into the camera. knyazevfoto\/Shutterstock
\nInformal settlements are ingrained into the heart of Mumbai. The city is home to Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia\u00a0with around one million people packed into one square mile of former marshland. Sixty-percent of the city\u2019s 20.7 million inhabitants live in slums.
\nLike many developing urban areas in Asia, the government of Mumbai tries to play a non-zero-sum game that appeases both slum dwellers and rightful land owners. Those good intentions often culminate in forced evictions.<\/p>\n
Perhaps not as much with Omkar Realtors & Developers \u2014 a real estate firm that has been in the business of building luxury residential developments on former slum areas for 14 years, Mansion Global reported.
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\nOmkar has been able to relocate 50,000 informal settlers in the city across 15 redevelopment projects, a laudable feat given that many slum dwellers are loathe to leave their homes. Some Mumbai developers are notorious for flinging slum dwellers to areas far from their work sites, if not give false promises altogether.
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\n\u201cThe entire strength of this business is whether you can convince the people to move out,\u201d Omkar director Gaurav Gupta told Mansion Global.
\nUnlike their peers, Omkar makes good on its promises by prioritising the allocation of capital to replacement housing before conducting any demolition job. By undertaking multiple projects, the firm is able to better manage financial flows as well. The firm has been \u201csuccessful in terms of scale,\u201d Amita Bhide, an urban planning professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, told Mansion Global.
\nGupta revealed that Mumbai will be \u201cbroken down and rebuilt\u201d by Omkar over the next 25 to 30 years.
\nNot everyone is living in this ideal though. A former slum dweller who has been successfully relocated by Omkar reported that the company still has not relocated many families from his area since 2013.
\n\u201cThe balance eligible tenants will be handed over their houses in due course,\u201d a spokesperson for Omkar told Mansion Global in response.
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\nSource : property-report.com
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