NEW DELHI: Delhi Development Authority will build 8,064 flats for slum dwellers at A-14, Kalkaji, in south Delhi. Construction for the mega slum rehabilitation project is expected to begin within a month or two. Sources said tenders have already been floated. "We will award this work soon," said a DDA official.

Work will be taken up in phases and the first phase will involve construction of about 2,200 flats. Details are still being worked out, but each building will have 15-16 floors. Sources say vertical growth is necessary to make the project feasibile. In phase-I, flats will be built on an empty plot near a slum.