when complete , over 2 million people are expected to be displaced . after wiping out the only desirable slums , next in line for closure are the illegal " well - off " roofed and neighborhoods , leading to the legal and bureaucratic motions that have been executed toward cleaning up mumbai ' s face by maintaining the dominance of shanties , which takes up 62 percent of mumbai ' s residents .
200,000 shanties have been demolished.