to completed , over 2 million inhabitants are expected to be displaced . after wiping out the closest desirable shanties , next in stream for demolition are the illegal " worse - off " shanties and neighborhoods , owing to the legal and bureaucratic motions that have been placed toward cleaning up mumbai ' s appearance by reducing the power of rickety , which make up 62 percent of karachi ' s development .
200,000 shanties have been demolished.