Mumbai In building ACORN’s India FDI Watch Campaign to seek to block expansion of foreign direct investment in retail (www.indiafdiwatch.org), the key to finally getting traction on this effort over the last year has been the ability to fully engage the small business community of India in recognizing the threat they face. A year ago …
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Housing Schemes
Mumbai The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai has an aggressive goal to eliminate all slums in the city befitting its world class ambitions. They are hard at it. One scheme (as they call such things here) we looked at pretty closely in the Mill lands area with Vinod Shetty, our lawyer, Reena Desai, ACORN’s campaign director …
MillLands
Mumbai One of the largest development and peoples’ housing fights in the world is located in the heart of Mumbai on 600 acres of what is now astronomically valuable land where more than 80 textile mills were first built by the British more than 150 years ago used to fume and toil. Mill lands were …