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
After crossing several deadlines and three years of waiting, the UT's master plan 2030 was submitted to the UT Administrator during a meeting held on Wednesday between UT Officials and UT Administrator
Years after the forestland issue cropped up in Mulund, residents of the area continue to struggle, while politicians continue to take advantage of it. Rakesh Shetty, national youth wing president, Indian
City residents faced the worst-ever water crisis during the one-year tenure of Mayor Raj Bala Malik, which ends on December 31. This year, even residents staying on ground floors faced a water crisis.
JAIPUR: Despite receiving appreciation from the Central government for its flagship programme of affordable housing scheme, in ground reality, the state government is nowhere close to meeting its target. Last week, Union ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation recommended Rajasthan's affordable housing policy to other states to address the problems of rising number of homeless persons and slums in the country.
NGO cites study to claim discrimination in allotment of housing reservation After BMC served demolition notices to 400 houses along Malvani-Marve Road in Malad Monday, urban planners and activists reiterated a long-pending demand Tuesday to include slums in the development plan (DP) of the city. The demand was made at a day-long convention to discuss inclusion of the urban poor in the DP being prepared by the civic administration.
The civic existing land use survey has deliberately blanked out several existing slums, alleged various NGOs working with deprived sections of society. Activists fear that the deletion of slums in the
Sending a stern message that it will not take lapses in environmental issues lightly, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, for the first time, sought action against a senior bureaucrat. The NGT is an
Residents staying in transit accommodation since 2006 By arbitrarily refusing to give No Objection Certificates (NOC) to a Rs. 100-cr. slum redevelopment project in Worli, Mumbai, the Western Naval Command has made more than 240 families homeless. The Naval authorities, however, have given a go-ahead to construction projects which have come up closer to the naval installations in the past. The Hindu has reliably learnt that the permission has been denied despite the fact that the field-level naval authorities entrusted with reviewing the structure for security threats had given the green signal to the project with certain restrictions.
How do mass slum resettlement programmes in expanding megacities contribute to the reproduction of urban poverty? Chennai's premier resettlement colony, Kannagi Nagar, housing slum-dwellers evicted from
Recent reform programmes for achieving "slum-free" cities, like the Basic Services for the Urban Poor, signal a new integrated approach to slum redevelopment that combines housing, infrastructure and land
