Biometrics to be collected from 1M poor Indians for Dharavi slum redevelopment scheme

Poor Indians living in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai for the past 24 years will next month be biometrically registered for a housing redevelopment project.

According to Reuters, the registration is part of a survey to identify those who’ll be given new houses in the redeveloped area, as well as those to be relocated to other settlements.

The exercise, to be conducted by Indian commodity trading business Adani Group, in collaboration with the state government of Maharashtra, comes …

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