For a slum redevelopment project, the basic consent required is of 70 per cent of the total slum dwellers. But now, activists claim that the government, in order to benefit the developers, has come up with stringent rules to curb opposition by slum dwellers. A proposed plan suggests that if a slum dweller opposes the project and does not join before the building permission is granted, he/she will lose the right to the free home they are supposed to get.

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