Mumbai; Throw away the MoU of Adani development project for the Dharavi workers!

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Throw Away the MoU of Adani Development Project for Dharavi Workers !

The Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI) Central Coordination Committee (CCC) strongly opposes the BJP government’s move to evict workers in the name of redevelopment of Dharavi in Mumbai, Asia’s largest slum and demands immediate cancellation of the Rs 23,000-crore PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) Contract Agreement (MoU) with the Adani Group of Companies. The Dharavi Redevelopment Project was notified when Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena, who is now shouting ‘Save Dharavi’, was the Chief Minister.

The Shiv Sena’s contention is that Modi should take the Maha Aghadi Parties into confidence while selling 259 acres of slum dwellers Dwelling Land in Dharavi to the Adani Group. There is no difference between the BJP and Shiv Sena’s stand in support of the looting of corporate companies in the name of development.

Therefore, the TUCI Central Coordination Committee appeals to the Workers’ Organisations, the real Left Parties, Organisations who are working for the welfare of the slum dwellers to take up a joint struggle with the central slogan “Kick out Adani, Save Dharavi”.

More than 1 million unorganised factory contract workers, construction , head loading, domestic , housekeeping, autorickshaw, vehicle-automobile drivers hotel-shop keeping workers and cottage industries live in the “homeland” of Dharavi, Mumbai. Dharavi’s annual economic contribution stands at more than Rs 100 crore. The corporate is eyeing on the land (Heart of Mumbai) worth several lakh crore rupees. Adani intends to build a HUDCO-style multi-storey house for slum dwellers on 170 acres and set apart the remaining 189 acres to a real-estate-global apartment project. Therefore, the Adani company and the Chowkidar have chalked out a predatory plan of creating a separate Dharavi Development Authority under PPP for building special colony in the guise of houses for slum dwellers, that too only for a section of them.

R. Manasayya
Central Co-ordinator
CCC, TUCI
Delhi
18-12-2023