Probe slum rehab at Mankhurd : HC
The Bombay High Court ordered the setting up of a committee to look into the feasibility of the construction of tenements by Videocon under the scheme for rehabilitating slum dwellers along railway tracks at Mankhurd.
Infrastructural facilities for Kutch villages
The Consideration of Indian Industries (CII) formally handed over infrastructural facilities in 14 out of 23 villages in bhachau taluka of Kutch which were adopted by it after the earthquake struck the region last year. Officials said this joint initiative involving both public and private sectors to work towards structural …
Make slum-dwellers a part of planning
The metropolis of Delhi can only be made free of slums if the city authorities treat their dwellers as integral and useful components of the city, and act accordingly, recommends an official committee on the subject.
No fitness certificate for converted buses
The transported Department has stopped issuing fitness certificates to retrofitted CNG buses since yesterday. This means that diesel buses which have installed CNG kits will not be allowed to ply in the Capital. The decision comes in the wake of the Supreme Court order asking the Department to take converted …
30,000 slum families to be given houses
The budget estimates for the year 2002-03 for the slum and jhuggi wing of the MCD was also tabled before the standing committee of the MCD. The budget proposes to provide housing facilities to ex-servicemen, relocate 30,000 jhuggi families and provide toilet facilities to solve environmental problems.
Assembly passes Slum Areas Bill 2002
The Legislative Assembly today passed the Karnataka Slum Areas (improvement & clearance) and Certain other law (amendment) Bill, 2002 which empowers the government to transfer lands belonging to it or a local authority to the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board. The Bill also empowers the Board to lease, allot, sell or …
Master Plan should address poverty issues, says L-G
The Delhi Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. Vijai Kapoor, today stressed the need to address the issues relating to poverty in Delhi's new Master Plan and said that the all important issues of employment should be included in the Five Year Plans to give a new thrust. Inaugurating a workshop on "Transportation, Land …
Japanese project cleared for Kannagi Nagar
After nearly a year, the Tamil Nadu Government has finally cleared the way for a Rs. 25-lakh Japanese Government project in Kannagi Nagar, the Slum Clearance Board settlement in Oggiyam Thoraipakkam. The grant was sanctioned to an NGO early this year for operating four day care centres, a park and …
WB to finance $ 450 m roads projects in UP
The World Bank has agreed to negotiate financing of $450 million road project in Uttar Pradesh. A team of state government officials will visit Washington this month to finalise the deal, said Mr. DS Bagga, Chief Secretary, UP, at an interactive session organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and …
Rs 1,200 crore ADB aid for Madhya Pradesh urban projects
The Asian Development Bank(ADB) will provide financial assistance of Rs 1,200 crore for integrated urban development projects in six cities of Madhya Pradesh. The assistance will reach the government in 2003. These projects will be executed in Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain and Ratlam.
Land rights for slum dwellers in Karnataka
The Karnataka government is all set to launch a Rs. 274-crore project to give tenurial rights to slum dwellers in 21 class-one cities and develop infrastructure to provide housing to them. Karnataka is the third State after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to implement such a project.
Houses for displaced slum-dwellers
World Vision, a non-governmental Organisation working for the resettlement of slum-dwellers, handed over 221 houses in the Bhalsawa area of North Delhi and Bukara village in Gurgaon today to slum-dwellers who had to be resettled following a "Clean Delhi" drive in the Capital.
74% of slum population literate
Almost three quarters of India's slum population is literate. In fact, the literacy rate for the population aged over seven years an living in slums is over 80 per cent in four states, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala and Maharashtra. The number of literates, as a percentage of the population over seven …
Govt does it again : writes to Centre for more CNG
Delhi government has written to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) once again to express its concern over the supply of CNG for its 10,000 strong city bus fleet. On November 30, 1,000-odd diesel buses are likely to go off roads as Delhi government begins to phase out …
Maharashtra reports largest slum population
Maharashtra has 10.6 million people living in slums, the largest among the States, with Andhra Pradesh reporting the most number of towns, 76, with slums, according to the latest census figures. In Maharashtra, 31.7 per cent of the 33.6 million people in the 62 towns reporting slums lived in such …
Three states account for 50 % of slum population
Three states account for almost 50 per cent of the country's slum population. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have 19.95 million people living in slums, which is 49.14 per cent of the 40.6 million slum dwellers in the country. Maharashtra tops the list of states with a record slum …
23.86 % of city dwellers live in slums
Nearly a quarter of India's million plus city population live in slums. The government, for the first time, has made comprehensive study of the slums collecting data on a countrywide basis. Of the 70.8 million people living in 26 of India's largest cities, 16.9 million live in slums, according to …
5000 CNG buses on city roads : DG status report
Under specific instructions from the Supreme Court to phase out the entire fleet of diesel vehicles, Delhi Government acted quickly and now nearly 5,000 CNG buses are plying on Delhi roads. On the other hand, 1189 special permits issued to the diesel vehicles have been surrendered so far after the …
People of Majuli hail UNESCO's preservation move
The UNESCO decision to grant an amount of US $20,000 as a preparatory assistance for a dossier in support of the Majuli Island Protection and Development Council's (MIPADC) demand to include Majuli in Assam, the largest river island on the earth, in the World Heritage Site list has generated much …
Dwelling unit project runs into trouble
The initiative taken by the Haryana Government, following a Supreme Court order, to construct dwelling units for bonded labourers working in Faridabad mines, is facing a bleak future. The Supreme Court had asked the government last year to recover the cost of construction from the employers of the bonded labourers.
