India, April 2 -- The Adani Group-led Navbharat Mega Developers Private Limited (NMDPL), which is redeveloping Dharavi, has approached the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to secure environmental clearance to construct rehabilitation tenements at the 19-acre Mother Dairy plot in Kurla, which has hundreds of trees.

The now-defunct Mother Dairy plant next to Kurla's Nehru Nagar is one of the five plots on which NMDPL will construct tenements for Dharavi residents who are ineligible for rehabilitation in Dharavi itself and for free sale in the real estate market. The other four plots are at Malad East, Deonar, Mulund, and Matunga. The Kurla plot is the first one whose possession was given to NMDPL by the Maharashtra gov...