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’.
Residents want to self-develop individual societies instead of cluster development of slum as a whole. Govt's invited fresh bids but residents say plan gets revived only before polls.
The Slum Rehabilitation Authority floated global tenders to hire a bid process management consultant, who will evaluate the tenders received for revival of the project.
ThePrint spent hours at a ward-level Covid war room where a team of 16 fielded calls from patients looking for hospital beds. The past month, staff say, has been among the busiest.
Active Covid cases increased to 73 on 4 March from just 10 on 22 January in Dharavi, prompting the BMC to take stringent measures to prevent the situation from escalating.
While the Covid caseload of Dharavi now stands at 3,788, the number of active cases is 12, out of which eight are in home isolation and four in a Covid care centre.
The ‘Dharavi model’ has made international headlines, and perhaps, just as talked about as the model is the face behind it — assistant municipal commissioner Kiran Dighavkar.
In episode 496 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains why Delhi should look to Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, which managed to arrest the virus considerably.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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