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. …
THAT day when Darla Dhanalakshmi suffered severe joint pain and numbness in the limbs she knew something was seriously wrong. She had been suffering from the pain since January after she visited a clinic on the outskirts of Hyderabad. There she was asked to pop an unknown pill. The pain …
Arguing that the initial years of the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board were dominated by the priorities of the then ruling party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, whose government created it in 1971, this paper points out that shelter policies in the state had a formal orientation away from eviction and …
Hidden behind city branding exercises through large projects are acts of land capture and slum demolitions by a predatory local state and crony capitalism. In the policy arena, meanwhile, the urban, and particularly the metropolitan story has been one of deliberate confusion, and fragmentation of policy and implementation. The promise …
The government will screen five crore people from across the country for hyper-tension and diabetes. Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that these lifestyle diseases pose a huge health risk. Inaugurating a camp to screen slum-dwellers in Delhi for the lifestyle diseases, Mr Azad said,
Waterborne diseases, specially gastro, typhoid and skin ailments, are on the rise in Karachi, particularly its slum areas, said Dr Khuwaja Salman. Examining patients in a free medical camp held by Jamaat-e-Islami UC-12 Gulshan-e-Iqbal chapter at Muhammad Khan Goth in collaboration with Al-Khidmat, he said use of contaminated water is …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has initiated a programme with the help of an NGO, to create awareness in slum areas of the metropolis about the losses in the water distribution system due to unmetered and illegal water connections. "Through this programme, we intend to create awareness among slumdwellers about …
In the absence of ration card, many homeless are not entitled to welfare benefits offered by the government CHENNAI: The voters' identity card of 28-year-old homemaker B. Bavani gives her address as
Under the ambitious slum rehabilitation scheme of the state government, 43,000 slum dwellers will be handed over flats within the next four years in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Allegations of corruption and mismanagement have been raised against the slum rehabilitation authority (SRA), mainly regarding the delay in handing over the flats. …
Of the 28.5 crore diabetics in the world, 5.1 crore are in India India is faced with the triple burden of persistent communicable diseases, new and emerging infections, and increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday at the Delhi Secretariat …
BHUBANESWAR: With a rise in the number of slum-dwellers, the State Government is gearing up to prepare a new project to rehabilitate them in a proper manner. The project, which will focus on improving the livelihood of the slum-dwellers, is an extension of the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) which was …
How the State has responded to the fasts of Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev and Medha Patkar and how the media has portrayed them are a study in contrasts and say something about our society.
GUWAHATI: Big cities in our country are dotted with slums and Guwahati is no exception. The Ministry of Housing and Poverty Allevation has taken up a Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme and under this scheme the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), along with the Assam Government, has taken …
Narmada river-banks will be developed spending an amount of Rs. one crore in Jabalpur. Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur made this announcement while dedicating newly developed Shiv-Ghat with Rs. 50 lakh on the bank of Narmada river near Jabalpur. It may be mentioned that the Chief Minister Shivraj …
Mumbai realtor HDIL to resettle the affected over next 14 days; hope for stalled project in limbo for 18 months. Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL), the Mumbai-based realtor which is undertaking the biggest slum rehabilitation project in the heart of the city, to relocate 85,000 families for development of …
Slum dwellers should develop their own land where builder will not have any crucial role to play, says social activist Medha Patkar on Tuesday. More than 60% of slum dwellers are living in just 6-8% of the city land. The vast working class, lower middle class and the informal sector …
The Bombay high court on Thursday barred the committee appointed by the state from probingallegations of instances of forgery made by social activist Medha Patkar against the redevelopment scheme at Golibar Road, Khar, from taking action till June 16. The court has also directed the state to reconstitute the committee …
The government is taking recourse to satellite mapping to save one of the largest mangrove forests along the Gorai creek. Next week, a survey team from a Pune-based agency will visit the area to study about 10,000 encroachments, including shanties, which have cut deep into the forest that lies along …
The central government has decided to establish a . 1,000 crore mortgage risk guarantee fund to facilitate lending for housing for the urban poor and also announced a low-cost housing scheme that could benefit from the funds. The union cabinet also approved a fund for solar power producers to cover …
