Dharavi Assembly Election 2024: In the 2019 elections, Gaikwad Varsha Eknath, representing the Congress, won the Dharavi seat by defeating Ashish Vasant More from the Shiv Sena. Eknath secured 53,954 votes, while More received 42,130 votes.
Maharashtra Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha asserted that the demolition of illegal construction will take place at any cost. He said that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will demolish the illegal construction after seven days.
Dharavi mosque row: Protests were seen against the BMC team that went to demolish the illegal construction at Dharavi's Shubhaniya Mosque. However, later the trustees of the mosque wrote a letter to the BMC and asked for time to demolish the illegal construction themselves.
The BMC, earlier today, arrived at the site of a religious structure in the Dharavi area of Mumbai to demolish an alleged illegal portion of it, triggering protests by the locals.
Dharavi, located in the central part of the country's financial capital and among the biggest slum clusters in the world, is a hub for several small-scale, unorganised industries that manufacture medicines, leather, footwear, clothes etc.
Mumbai fire: At least four to five units located on the ground floors of two adjacent two-storey buildings in Ashok Mill compound were affected by the blaze which erupted at around noon, official said.
Maharashtra crime: The police confirmed that the deceased, identified as Zahid, was a watchman by profession. The deceased's wife was also injured while trying to save her husband.
The group has put in a Rs 5,069 crore bid for the redevelopment of one of the largest slum sprawls in the world, outbidding DLF, which had quoted Rs 2,025 crore, chief executive officer of the project SVR Srinivas said.
At least 15 people suffered injuries after an LPG cylinder exploded and caused a minor fire at a shanty in Maharashtra's Dharavi.
Mumbai's Dharavi reports zero case of Covid in the last 24 hours. At present, the active cases in the area stand at 11, says Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Dharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai, is now Covid-free. Earlier in April, it became a hotspot of coronavirus infections when the second wave of the pandemic was at its peak in Maharashtra.
Despite the availability of vaccination services Vaccine hesitancy is causing delay in vaccination drive in india which can cause risk to the people who aren’t getting vaccinated as well as the wider community. watch report from Asia's Largest Slum Dharavi.
The slum-dominated Dharavi area in Mumbai recorded 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest daily rise since October, a senior official of theBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
For the first time since April 1 when the first coronavirus patient was detected in the area, no new case has been detected.
A five-year-old boy was crushed to death in his building’s lift in Dharavi on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Huzaifa Sarfaraz Shaikh. According to the police, the incident took place in the Cozy housing society at Cross Road in Dharavi at 12:43 pm.
Mohammad Huzaifa Shaikh, who was inside the lift with his siblings, failed to get out when it reached the fourth floor and got stuck between the wooden safety door and grill, and sustained severe head injuries when the lift moved.
The COVID-19 case count in Dharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai, rose by 11 to 2,392 on Tuesday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, was lauded by the World Health Organisation for breaking chains of coronavirus transmission. Citing exemplars from across the globe, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday mentioned Dharavi along with Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and South Korea.
Mumbai to Implement 'Dharavi Model' in Suburbs, Screen 25 Lakh Residents in a Week as Cases Surge. Meanwhile, global COVID-19 Cases have surged to top 9.4 million.
COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the country. Delhi reported fresh 3947 cases with 68 deaths today.
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