Maharashtra govt awards Dharavi Redevelopment Project to Adani Group

Hyderabad: With Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the helm of affairs in Maharashtra, handing over the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) to Adani Group was just a mere formality.

Eight months after the Adani Group was declared the highest bidder for the Asia’s largest slum development project, the Maharashtra government passed a resolution and awarded the project to Adani Properties Private Limited. But things are not as simple as it appear over the surface and lot of “effort” went into handing over the project to Adani



Group.

According to reports, the BJP government allegedly tweaked terms and conditions in the tendering process. All this was done despite the break due to a change in government, managed to get back into power after engineering cracks in the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party and making Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister as well. A look into the chronology of developments in the last few years, sheds light on how new rules were incorporated into the terms and conditions for the tendering process, which enabled the Adani Group to secure the project.