In India Mumbai  is a attractive market  for analyzing of slum redevelopment. Mumbai is one of the most busy cities in Maharashtra and about inadequate access to safe water, inadequate access to sanitation and other infrastructure, poor structural quality of housing, overcrowding and insecure residential status which  is  more than half of the city’s population. The country’s government has attempted to clear the slums since the 1950’s  and got little success in order to make way for economic development. This strategy was later recognized to be ineffective and the government’s focus turned to slum redevelopment in the 1970’s.

Moreover, the slums in Mumbai continue to be impoverished and persist. In fact the Dharavi which was known as Asia’s largest slum for a few decades was surpassed in size by four other Mumbai slums in 2011. This means that slums in Mumbai are expanding while the quality of living in slums has not improved significantly. At the same time, redevelopment projects in slums in the  city were announced by the government of India.

It is important here to distinguish the service of slum redevelopment from slum clearance. Slum clearance refers to the removal of informal settlements by the government. It was a policy adopted by the Indian government in the 1950’s. Since the social value of slums in India was largely ignored, slum communities were often uprooted in this process. Moreover, there were often few safety nets for the people moving out of the slums, who became further impoverished. Slum redevelopment, in contrast, refers to large-scale improvements to the slum landscape that are targeted at enriching slum communities rather than eradicating them.