Mumbai HC has earlier upheld Adani Group's tender for Dharavi redevelopment, ruling no 'arbitrariness, unreasonableness, or perversity' in the decision.
In the Congress stronghold, Rajesh Khandare from Shinde's Shiv Sena is in second position. Uddhav Thackeray had vowed to scrap the Dharavi redevelopment tender if he returned to power.
As the two-decade-old Dharavi redevelopment project stumbles to take off, it has once again become a key bone of contention between Mahayuti & MVA ahead of Maharashtra's assembly polls.
Adani Group plans to convert 240 hectare slum into a modern city hub. Only those who lived in Dharavi before the year 2000 will get free homes in the redevelopment.
Considering politics around the much-delayed project, with Maha assembly polls being around the corner, there’s a chance of the project going back to the drawing board.
Opposition accuses govt of tweaking development rules to give Adani incentives, which both have denied. Incentives are based on govt resolutions issued during tenures of Fadnavis & Shinde.
Adani group won Dharavi rebuilding project in July by bidding $610 million for the project. Redevelopment of Dharavi, where 1 million people live, has been delayed for decades.
Termed as Asia's largest slum, Dharavi is three-quarters the size of New York's Central Park, featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
The Eknath Shinde-led govt decided to revive the Dharavi project in September this year, hoping to take it off the drawing board 19 years after it was first conceived.
With Shinde govt initiating revamp effort, potential bidders expressed concerns at meeting earlier this month. Redevelopment authority says project requires ‘out of the box thinking’.
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