India, March 22 -- Reports that government land is being handed over to Adani Realty in the guise of redeveloping Dharavi are untrue, state cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar said on Friday.

Not an inch of government land will be handed over to the industrial house, he added.

Shelar was responding during a heated debate in the state assembly, during which Congress MLA Jyoti Gaikwad slammed the government and said it was handing over hundreds of acres to Adani, and arbitrarily terming slum-dwellers opposing the Dharavi redevelopment, as ineligible.

In response, Shelar said the land in Dharavi is owned by the Dharavi Redevelopment Authority (DRA), a state-owned company. Of the total land area, 50% belongs to the Brihanmumbai Municip...