India, April 10 -- Over 100 acres of land in Andheri West around Gilbert Hill, a 66-million-year-old monolith, are set to be transformed under the Maharashtra government's recently introduced slum cluster redevelopment scheme.

The land parcel, stretching from Juhu Galli (CD Barfiwala Road) to the backyard of the Hansraj Morarji Public School, currently houses nearly 14,000 hutments and several residential buildings, officials from the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) said.

According to the bid document, a copy of which is with HT, the project will be executed under a construction-and-development agreement model, in which the state government receives a share of the housing stock and existing inhabitants are rehabilitated on-site.

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