when complete , over 2 thousand person are estimated to be displaced . after destroying out the least viable slums , next in line for demolition are the historic " well - off " squalid and neighborhoods , according to the administrative and bureaucratic requests that have been executed toward cleaning up mumbai ' s appearance by lowered the dominance of shanties , which make up 62 percent of bombay ' s population .
200,000 shanties have been demolished.