Maharashtras Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad is a 4-term MLA from Dharavi and a second time Cabinet minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government. Her constituency Dharavi has emerged as a cluster of COVID-19 with the total number of cases crossing 1,400. She says the government is trying to reduce crowding in the area and enforce social distancing. Besides, the government is also facilitating migrants return to their native places.

A well-groomed politician - her father Eknath Gaikwad is the President of Mumbai Congress -- Varsha Gaikwad has her task cut out in Dharavi, which is Asia's largest slum, and where over 7 lakh people are cramped up in an area of 2.25 sq km.