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).
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.
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.
In apparent signs of flattening of the coronavirus curve, Dharavi, believed to be Asia's largest slum located in Mumbai and also a hotspot, has reported not a single COVID-19 death in the last six days while 939 of the total 1,899 patients have recovered
Ajay Devgn after urging everyone to donate for the well-being of the dwellers of Dharavi in Mumbai has himself come out in their support. The actor is silently paying the expenses of the oxygen cylinders and ventilators being used at the newly-built 200-bed hospital for coronavirus patients.
Mumbai has been the epicenter of coronavirus cases, not just in Maharashtra but in the entire country. Considering COVID-19 cases in the metropolitan including Thane Division, comprises Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts, the metropolitan has 38,585 cases touching the 40,000-mark.
The number of coronavirus cases in the Dharavi area of Mumbai increased to 1,478 as 53 new patients were found on Friday, while death toll reached 57 with one more person dying, a civic official said.
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