India, Nov. 4 -- The decades-long struggle of Mumbai's mill workers to get homes may soon conclude, with the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti (GKSS), which represents around 20,000 workers, deciding to accept homes in a proposed project at Shelu in Karjat. However, they have placed a condition that the price must be reduced further.

In the past, multiple mill worker unions opposed proposals for homes away from Mumbai, stating that moving elderly workers and families far away disrupted their livelihood and severed their connection to Mumbai. Now, their stance has changed due to improved connectivity and urbanisation in the other parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

The groundbreaking ceremony of the Shelu project took place on May 1 thi...