The source of this toxic smoke is the Deonar dumping ground, where solid waste has been piled over years to form a garbage mountain that ... earmarked 124 acres for Dharavi redevelopment, while ...

The resettlement colony proposed for Dharavi residents will be even closer to the mountain of garbage – it will come up right next to the garbage dump. “If we face so many issues, what will ...

60% of Mumbai’s waste is recycled in Dharavi. This alone results in the employment of 10,000 to 12,000 workers, reducing the unemployment rate. Debi Goenka, a prime environmentalist who is ...

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.

In 2024, the state government allocated a portion of the 311-acre Deonar landfill for housing tenements under the Dharavi rehabilitation project. Meanwhile, the BMC has set up a Waste-to-Energy ...

For the last few days, Ataul Khan, a computer engineer, has been tweeting to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) about a heap of garbage in Dharavi’s Azad Nagar For the last few days ...

(Cleanliness is next to Godliness). Dalvi further said that henceforth, if a gutter is choked or if garbage is lying unattended, Dharavi residents can approach their community leaders to get the ...