India, March 1 -- As work on the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) picks up pace, the issues caused by the construction have left local residents fuming. With a ready-mix concrete plant set up for the project, residents said that dumpers and cement-mixing trucks had been blocking the roads as well as leaving a trail of residue.

On Friday, the residents' collective angst erupted after a two-wheeler skidded on some spillage near Mahim Rail Yard. The unrest carried forward to Saturday when the locals, along with Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Joseph Koli, came out in large numbers at the rail yard, where the Adani Group's Navbharat Mega Developers Private Limited (NMDPL) is carrying out the DRP work.

"For the past few days, there have been i...