"Bidding will be invited for each of the five sectors, with the little or no direct state-government investment... we will be mainly overseeing the project," according to Secretary (Special Projects) Sanjay Ubale.
"It should take about a month for Expression of Interest documents to be ready," he said.
Informally, Dharavi is said to generate Rs 4,700 crore of mainly illegal products, including leather goods, cheap and imitation jewellery, food items, garments and ancillary industrial goods.
But despite its ubiquitous contributions, it was once described by the New York Times in an overview of global cities as "...an Asian polluter sullying the region, with children playing in rivulets of sewage, a gritty shantytown whose filth will reverberate in the region".
Image : Aniket Prakash Jadhan, 9, shows a white painted hand of approval after making his mark on a mural being painted by J J School of Arts students at the Banyan Tree Centre, a community centre in Dharavi on December 7, 2003.
Text: PTI
Photographs: Rob Elliott/ AFP/ Getty Images
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