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. …
To increase the number of night shelter for the city’s homeless, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has decided to construct seven of them by next year. Though authorities do not have an exact count of homeless people in the city, they said there should be one night shelter for …
The rehabilitation scheme for slum dwellers undertaken by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) in the city are non-people-friendly, and breeds corruption at all levels. This was stated by Madhura Lohokare, a research scholar from Syracuse University, in a presentation at OpenSpace in Pune on Monday. “During the process of rehabilitation, …
The Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has ordered that a stop-work notice be issued to a slum rehabilitation project coming up on a prime plot abutting the sea in Nariman Point, alleging it is illegal. The construction is underway right behind the Manora hostel for state legislature members. The …
The civic authorities have engaged the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (Hudco), a central agency, to prepare theme papers and detailed project reports on beautifying the city and making it slum-free. The beautification scheme will be implemented with funds provided under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, while the slum-free …
Terming the multi-crore-rupee Mutha and Mula river restoration project of the Pune Municipal Corporation, under the Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission (JNNURM) as blatant commercialisation of the rivers, civic and social activists opposed the ongoing project once again. On Sunday, in a meeting called by Sajag Nagrik Manch in …
JAIPUR: The urban housing and development (UDH) department is looking into the possibility of increasing the construction area of houses falling under Rajiv Awas Yojana, an affordable housing scheme under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for slum dwellers. Therefore, officials have been asked to redesign these houses. UDH …
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) marks an important advance in the approach of governments to social housing for the urban poor, slums and basic public services for poor urban settlements. The Working Group of the National Advisory Council (NAC) on Urban Poverty have examined the policy and guidelines announced by the …
An Act to provide for facilitation of inclusive growth and slum-free cities, to provide assured security of tenure, basic amenities and affordable housing to the slum-dwellers, for this purpose to lay down general principles applicable to slum-free cities in all spheres of government, to define the functions of State and …
Although rural energy access is a recognized priority, the issue of energy access for urban poor populations has not been given the requisite focus or priority in research and policy. Nevertheless, there are examples of successful approaches in providing energy access to the poorest segments of society. The goal of …
A view of Mumbai with parts of Dharavi in the foreground The thrust of the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARR), 2011, to dovetail the interests of the acquirers and developers with that of the land owners/farmers is indeed welcome. This is the first serious exercise when the …
Where slumdogs lived, millionaires will come for recreation. Avalok Langer reports on how Delhi is following Mumbai’s deplorable redevelopment policy Uprooted Slum-dwellers in Delhi collect their belongings after a demolition drive IT WAS lunch time. Two children, unconscious of their ‘status’ in society, quietly ate their half-filled steel bowl of …
About 23 percent rural people use unhygienic toilets while 10 percent villagers defecate in the open in Bangladesh, reveals a survey. The data achieved through the surveying of about 2.5 lakh people in some 150 villages of the seven divisions this year represent the overall sanitary condition of the country, …
Under pressure: millions of people are moving to places that are more vulnerable to environmental disaster, including the Dharavi slum in Mumbai Tens of millions of people are moving to places that are more vulnerable to environmental disaster, particularly the urban flood plains of Asia and Africa, according to a …
AHMEDABAD: The attack of dengue and malaria in the city may be more severe than what is reflected by the figures given out by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The situation is grave as the civic body has given data of cases in municipal hospitals only. Private hospitals too are …
In a bid to woo voters before the upcoming civic polls, the Congress party wants to make Mumbai’s slums self-contained. Vinod Shekhar, a Congress corporator from Colaba, demanded that the municipality must allow slum dwellers to construct toilets in their homes. Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh has also supported the …
The State Government's policy to resettle slum dwellers will permit private developers to take advantage of the increased floor-space index. With the Gujarat Government's recent move to offer flats free-of-cost to slum-dwellers at their existing site, the western State may become slum-free to some extent in the next few years. …
Ahmedabad: Finally, some relief is at hand for those fed up with slum pockets near their residential areas. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has taken the first step towards rehabilitating slum-dwellers. The civic body has initiated a socio-economic slum survey (SESS) in the newly merged areas that include the western part …
This is the report of the working group on urban poverty, slums, and service delivery system. The Report of the Working Group is laid out in four sections: The Urban Context; Existing Approaches to Urban Poverty Alleviation; Proposed Initiatives for the 12th Five-Year Plan; and Long Term Vision of Inclusive …
While analyzing the data and information on socio-economic conditions of slum dwellers in selected localities of Delhi NCR, the principal objective of the proposed study is to prepare a framework of social cost benefit analysis to evaluate alternative strategies aimed at developing the India’s capital in to a World Class …
This paper discusses ideas and methodologies on reducing urban poverty, paying particular attention to the changes that can be triggered by the practice of community savings. As local communities struggle to improve their development options, this practice has demonstrated staying power and relevance in many different nations, cities and contexts, …
