Mumbai: The Slum Rehabilitation Authority
(SRA) has cleared 26 skyscrapers with 23 floors each to house slum dwellers in
Malad, Worli and Bhoiwada, Parel. About 6,600 slum families, comprising around
25,000 people, will be relocated to these towers from their original shanty
land. Each family will get a free 269 sq ft (carpet) flat, but will have to be
trained to use the lift, bathrooms and other amenities. Housing experts have
dubbed it a “sophisticated displacement plan and a highly unsustainable urban
development model that will lead to further slumification of the city”.
SPARC believes that multi – storied buildings
inevitably leads to higher maintenance cost that eventually the poor have to
bear, for example, high rise buildings require the use of lifts which increases
the electric cost; structural maintenance is higher for high rises in comparison
to G+2 structures. In addition, social
interaction is challenged as the slum dwellers are interdependent within their
community, but with shifting into high rises, the community structure is
disrupted.
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