The Impact Rehabilitation is an evolving and on-going process. Families driven into debt have rebuilt their shattered lives. Residents feel secure enough not to shift from the area and have managed to put behind them feelings of bitterness in order to reach out to neighbours who underwent similar experiences of uprooting and alienation. Communal harmony has been achieved while at the same time women confined to their homes due to the upsurge of the religious sentiments and subsequent restrictions have come forward to assert themselves in the community. There is a general desire to adopt leadership roles instead of becoming pawns in the hands of political representatives.
Children attend schools regularly and the drop-out rate is no longer on the increase.
The functioning of a Community Resources Center in a Muslim - dominated neighborhood is used as a meeting point for both Hindus and the Muslims for joint campaigns are its testimony. The community based organisations are now looking beyond the issue of communal harmony to undertake more substantial social concerns and the development of the area as a whole. Best Practices Empower-Jogeshwori , Bombay, India Contact Addresses Mani Mistry, Jt. Mr. Satish Tripathi Former Secretary Rehabilitation Secretary, Government of Maharashtra, Bombay - 400 010. This web site is maintained by Urban Management Center .