Mumbai, Oct. 12 -- Pranav Adani, Director, Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL), performed Bhoomi Poojan at the 22-acre Matunga railway site on Monday, marking the start of rehabilitation construction for Dharavi, one of Asia's largest informal settlements and home to more than one million residents.

The site will accommodate ten high-rise towers comprising 10,432 rehabilitation apartments alongside 1,379 commercial and industrial units. The executing special purpose vehicle, Adani Navbharat Developers Private Limited (ANDPL), a joint venture between the Maharashtra government and the Adani Group, will allocate 350-square-foot flats to eligible families under an in-situ rehabilitation framework.

Eligible residents from Sectors 6 and 1 will r...