India, Sept. 7 -- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' assertion that Mumbai can become 100% slum-free within the next 10 years experts said is not merely a housing target, it signals a potentially significant change in how the city's redevelopment and land resources could be planned.

Fadnavis, while speaking at a NAREDCO Maharashtra event last week said the government would use a cluster-based redevelopment approach, alongside the redevelopment of Dharavi and other large land parcels, to transform informal settlements and older urban areas.

Cluster development is an urban redevelopment approach in which multiple adjoining buildings or plots are combined into a single large project. It enables better planning, improved infrastr...