This report presents case studies that highlight how ADB's teams are working together to design innovative urban projects across the Asia and Pacific region that leverage its value-added services and support
RAJSHAHI : The number of slum dwellers has been increasing gradually in the city for the last couple of decades due to various reasons worrying the city planners and the city dwellers as well, reports
Calling the BMC existing land use (ELU) survey “flawed”, NGOs have sought extension of the deadline of January 24 to submit suggestions and objections to the development plan (DP) for 2014-2034. At a meeting convened by standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale Thursday and attended by officials and engineers of the DP department, loopholes in the survey were discussed. “There have been omissions such as monorail and metro yards, nullahs and sewage pumping stations. A method to indicate multi-level land use must be devised and infrastructure such as transport must be mapped. Monuments on the state heritage list must also be included,” said Pankaj Joshi, executive director of Urban Design Research Institute. The projection of slums as grey areas without definition was also debated at the meeting.
The National Institute of Open Schooling was an instant choice. The sheer scale of operations — NIOS gave 5 lakh out-of-school students the chance to get an education in 2011-12 — ensured its selection as a winner in the government category. If NIOS was about scale, Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya No.2 of Zeenat Mahal won admiration for the determination with which its turnaround was achieved. Facing shutdown at one point, this Urdu-medium school became one of the top performing government schools in Delhi. There was unanimity among the jury that NIOS and the Sarvodaya school deserved a joint award — if one was a shining example of macro intervention, the other showed what can be achieved with micro-level efforts.
LAHORE – The fate of 40 slums has been hanging in the balance though the chief minister promised the betterment of these dwellers last year. These shocks have been established in various areas of the
The definition of poverty has drawn closer to multidimensionality within various theoretical frameworks. However, even though basic individual needs are itrinsic to human nature regardless of historical
This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can prevent their cities from locking into irreversible physical
In March 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia to share experiences and enhance lateral learning among ADB and its project partners
With the new year approaching, the forest department is gearing to get its boots dirty and dig trenches to safeguard its land from encroachers. With 2,232 illegal structures, incsluding shanties, huts
A month after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decided to replace the controversial Dattak Vasti Yojana — aimed at keeping slum areas clean — with the Swacha Mumbai Prabodhan Abhiyaan, a framework for the new scheme was discussed at the BMC standing committee meeting on Wednesday. The new scheme, which focuses on keeping slum areas clean, incorporated the name ‘Prabodhan’ after ‘Prabhodhankar’, the pen name of former Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s father. The Dattak Vasti Yojana was scrapped after it came under the scanner for alleged misappropriation of funds and monopoly by politicians.
The irony was not lost on anyone when Meerut, part of the ancient Harappan settlement renowned for its sophisticated drainage systems, was promised a decent sewerage system under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM) as late as 2005. The city seemed poised for a facelift after centuries of decrepit waste disposal infrastructure but, alas, that was not to be. Seven years hence, even this modest project seems to have ground to a halt. With heaps of garbage lining its choked and dug-up roads, the project — expected to be commissioned by March 2012 —looks far from complete, adding to the city’s miseries.
