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Imagine strolling down a strip of road in the skies and recalling how, a few years ago, Asia’s largest sprawl of squalor — the Dharavi slums — breathed below.
Such elevated walkways connecting offices to a swank railway station is just one of the wonders the future (we are now talking 2013 on official papers) is likely to unravel if the all goes well with the Rs 9,000-crore transformation of Mumbai’s iconic poverty district.
The blueprint of the two crore square feet commercial address, available exclusively with the HT, also talks about multi-layered driveways and buildings towering beyond 30 floors. The plan promises to allot almost equal space to house the slum dwellers.
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Such elevated walkways connecting offices to a swank railway station is just one of the wonders the future (we are now talking 2013 on official papers) is likely to unravel if the all goes well with the Rs 9,000-crore transformation of Mumbai’s iconic poverty district.
The blueprint of the two crore square feet commercial address, available exclusively with the HT, also talks about multi-layered driveways and buildings towering beyond 30 floors. The plan promises to allot almost equal space to house the slum dwellers.
Read...