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Slum Rehabilitation Society (SRS) was established to provide for a self-contained home with a proper kitchen and bathroom for slum-dweller families. The NGO has worked extensively with Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and leading real estate developers with a key focus on slum rehabilitation in the city of Mumbai.

Their solutions include:

• Facilitation of slum rehabilitation for various stakeholders.
• Data management of slum pockets.
• Community development and mobilization programmes.
• Establishment of social cohesion post rehabilitation.

Given Mumbais sky-high land prices, it is an economic challenge to rehabilitate slum-dwellers in concrete high-rises. SRS finances the re-housing by ear marking part of the slum-occupied land for sale to builders at commercial rates. SRS projects include:

• Slum Rehabilitation Projects: SRS facilitates construction of re-housing buildings. The NGO helps the community to mobilize, organize and relocate.
• Welfare activities: Post rehousing, SRS supports the slum community through diverse activities like balwadis, self-help groups, women mandals and health camps.
• Consultancy: SRS acts as a consultant and a support to NGOs targeted at upliftment of slum-dwellers lives.

The greatest challenge SRS currently faces is paucity of funds. The NGO is focused on fund raising to enable it to accept more projects.