Dharavi - City Within City (14 images)

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  • Arial view of Dharavi slum..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • Potters in Dharavi making pots. Toady 4th to 5th generation families are staying in Dharavi slums since 1933 and there are approx 2000 familes are there. Most of these familes are originally come from Gujrat and settled in Mumbai from there generations but the younger once are moving out and trying to be somone else than a potters.

  • Resident of Dharavi slum makes Papaddam in their small 10x10 shanty in the slumsof Dharavi. 80% of these snacks in Mumbai are prepared only in the Slums of Dharavi. They make around 500 to 600 papaddams every day. Their livelyhood is all dependant on this..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • Yung girls and guys work in screen printing unit on the daily wadge in the slums of Dharavi. Dharavi is Asia's largest slum but aslo has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery and plastic. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets.

  • migrant workers from Bihar works at embroydory workshop in Dharavi. They work as well stay at these place..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • A Mannequin in one of Dharavi's metal scrap workshop..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • A worker sprays the paint on the leather in the workshop in Dharavi..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • womens works in plastic recycling units in Dharavi..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • An oil tin recycling workshop in the Dharavi slum..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • Dharavi residence work in the oil containers recycling unit. The empty oil containers are washed and made new and sold it back to the market.

  • Venkatesh Dhobi (of the Dalit washer caste) washing clothes in the dirty sewage water of the Dharavi ghat. His four children work with him, and they are the fifth generation of his family to work in this pool. Together, Mr Dhobi, his wife and children earn less than 200 rupees a day..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • samll residential bylane in Dharavi.

  • MBA Student from American business school interacts with the local's on the Dharavi Tour in the slums of dharavi, Mumbai..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.

  • Noor Yousuf, A young migrant worker from Utter Pradesh takes a afternoon nap in the small garment factory in the Dharavi slum..Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, lies on prime property right in the middle of India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). Dharavi has a population of between 600,000 and a million. A city within a city, has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery, plastic and many more. Most of these products are made in tiny manufacturing units spread across the slum and are sold in domestic as well as international markets. The annual turnover of business here is estimated to be more than $650m a year.