As India’s market emerges in the global economy, cities such as Mumbai are attempting to develop into “world class” metropolises. Major infrastructure projects include the redevelopment of Mumbai’s slums areas through a formal process called slum rehabilitation. The scheme attempts to resettle slum dwellers in high rise housing in situ, providing a heightened standard of living, while giving developers the ability to repurpose the remaining land into areas of high economic activity. This process does not take into account the cornucopia of economic activities within the slums, nor does it accommodate the cultures and lifestyles of slum dwellers, often leading to further marginalization. Many of the slum dwellers also lack protectioin under the slum rehabilitation legislation, excluding them from the rehabilitation process. The problems surrounding slums largely come from India’s ineffective national development strategy which leaves the rural areas, containing 70% of the population, and the agricultural sector, containing 50% of the labor, underserved in the areas of healthcare, education and employment. This leads to the perpetuation of both the informal economy and immigration to the slums of India’s cities. It also has created a dichotomy of Two Indias— the Developing India of the urban, educated members of the formal economy and the Underdeveloped India of the rural and slum-dwelling, less-educated generally belonging to the informal economy. Slum rehab is simply a bandage solution for a complex problem.