There is fear and confusion among people in the sprawling slum about their resettlement status as the project picks up pace.

The ones who earn from selling discarded waste find themselves pushed into unchartered territory, with the closure of markets and the persistent disease threat.

In 'Waste of a Nation', Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey correctly point out that the burden of India's primitive waste systems has been carried by waste workers, most often Dalits, leaving other Indians blind to the mounting waste they create on a daily basis.