Order of the High Court of Gujarat in the matter of Samsuddin Jainulabiddin Shaikh & Others Vs The State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/05/2025. A petition was filed by 58 people who are residing near Chandola lake, Ahmedabad. The petitioners have constructed hutments along the periphery of Chandola lake. …
The Indian Government is planning to launch a new urban health-care programme in its latest step towards universal health-care coverage in the country. Soumyadeep Bhaumik reports.
Decides Govt Owing To Non-Availability Of Land In Urban Areas Jaipur: The state cabinet on Wednesday decided not to allot land to private institutions on concessional rates in areas under urban local bodies including municipal corporations, municipal councils and municipalities. The decision was taken due to the non-availability of land …
The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012, the 43rd edition of this series, includes the latest available economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This publication aims to present the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the …
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine and its deployment; the appropriate size of an OCV stockpile; the managing partnership and evaluation processes required; the …
Bhopal: Thousands of acres of slum land in four major cities of Madhya Pradesh may go into the hands of private builders, if the proposal mooted by the housing and environment department under the plan to make the cities slum-free, is any indication. The plan will cause major urban displacement …
An ambitious project involving construction of swanky sea-view high-rises on prime Mumbai land after razing Mahatma Phule Colony, a slum sprawl at Nariman Point, is under scanner for violation of building norms. The plot is located between the Manora hostel for MLAs and the Arabian sea. The builder, Ace Links, …
The recent Punjab & Haryana High Court direction barring the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) from issuing fresh licences for housing projects in Gurgaon without an undertaking from the builders to not draw groundwater has been welcomed by the citizens by and large as a “justified concern”, but also triggered …
Nearly 500 jhuggi dwellers from eight slum tenements on Wednesday became proud owners of their dwelling units, at least on paper, as they were presented with allotment letters to their houses at a function at Delhi Secretariat. The Government has in this scheme for the first time used biometrics to …
The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) would be undertaking a survey of the slums in Vellore Corporation with a view to replacing them with pucca individual houses or apartments under the Rajiv Awas Yojana, a housing scheme to be funded jointly by the Central and State governments, according to …
The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Wednesday approved construction of 7,400 houses for slum-dwellers under the Economically Weaker Section category at Bhalaswa Jahangirpuri. At a meeting in Delhi Secretariat, the Board also gave its nod for construction of a community hall at Trilokpuri and passed its budget for the …
New Delhi: The Delhi government will launch a socio-economic survey across 652 slums in the capital later this month. Four agencies have been shortlisted for providing a detailed profile of about 20 lakh slum-dwellers to help in making Delhi “slum-free” and address different rehabilitation issues. The survey has to be …
David Osrin and colleagues report findings from their cluster-randomized trial in Mumbai slums that evaluated whether facilitator-supported womens groups improved perinatal outcomes. Original Source
Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing. While working to improve health service quality, we tested an intervention in which urban slum-dweller women's groups worked to improve local perinatal health.
Even in countries with rapidly growing economies, large number of people still resort to open defecation: 626 million in India, 14 million in China & 7 million in Brazil finds this 2012 report which assesses the regional progress on eight MDGs. Three important targets on poverty, slums and water have …
Interested in replicating Mumbai’s model for rehabilitating families affected by infrastructure projects, a delegation from Brazil visited the city on Wednesday and went to construction sites of major projects such as the Metro, Sahar Elevated Road and the Milan subway over-bridge. Alessandra Campanaro, infrastructure finance specialist at World Bank in …
MUMBAI: A three-member delegation of Rio de Janeiro metropoitan officials in Brazil comprising a World Bank executive recently visited Mumbai's infrastructure projects being executed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). "MMRDA has done appreciable work as far as the resettlement and rehabilitation of project affected families are concerned. …
LUCKNOW: The National Sample Survey Office, Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India will be conducting a survey on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, housing condition and urban slums from the selected households/slums during its 69th round of survey to be conducted from July 1 to December 31. …
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …
“Delhi Jal Board is yet to implement equitable distribution” “Nobody cares… we just keep getting lame excuses,” says V.K. Arora as he bemoans the daily struggle for water faced by residents of South Delhi's Kailash Hills. At the tail end of the supply chain, residents here have to depend mainly …
Close on the heels of the state government declaring 2014 as the new cut-off date for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) — the nodal agency for the execution of the revamp of sector five — has revised its own deadline. The agency …
