If Dharavi is cleared and redeveloped, it is almost certain that its micro-enterprises, employing tens of thousands of people, will die a quick death. Commercial developers make their money from ...

Covid-19 made this stark when Dharavi became a transmission hotspot ... would be larger than what they currently have, but cottage enterprises will have their own constraints.

It is a hive of small-scale industries. From leather shops and textile mills to bakeries and paper recycling plants, Dharavi’s small enterprises have an estimated collective annual turnover of ...

Dharavi has an active informal economy where a myriad of small-scale enterprises flourish, including businesses involved in leather goods, garments, pottery, recycling and even poppadoms.

The ambitious project to redevelop Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums ... including open sewers and shared toilets, stand in stark contrast to India's ongoing development boom, the report ...

The redevelopment will also benefit scores of small-scale enterprises in Dharavi that have created a thriving informal economy but are forced to live and work in abysmal conditions. A DRPPL source ...