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. …
With only 0.05% of the total area of the country, Delhi is home to 1.34% of India's population. This creates enormous pressure on natural and man-made resources, and generates situations in which non-health determinants may take precedence over the conventional determinants directly associated with health and health care.
Google has agreed to amend its map of the Brazillian city of Rio de Janeiro after the country’s media and city officials slammed it for giving prominence to favelas or shantytowns. When viewed in large format, the map pinpoints several of Rio’s more than 600 favelas. It does not label …
Recognising that Climate Change most adversely affects marginalized communities, INECC felt that it was necessary to have a better understanding of the vulnerability of these communities to climate change as well as develop and prepare adequate resilience to the impacts of climate change. The problems and the solutions will be …
CHENNAI: Ten slum colonies in the city, including the one at Ambedkar Nagar, will be declared smoke free by the year-end. Prasanna Kannan, WHO consultant, speaking to Express, said,
An Act to provide for facilitation of inclusive growth and slum-free cities, including 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 Local governments in respect of …
MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai is not beaming in its 40th year. Lack of affordable housing, poor transport, growing slum population and encroachment, pollution, and slow infrastructure development are hampering its prospects. The state government's recent white paper on the socio-economic progress of Navi Mumbai says: "Lack of efficient, dependable and speedy …
GUWAHATI, Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has come up with a new project called the Slum Housing Project with the objective of providing Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP). Talking to The Sentinel, a GMC official said,
The government agencies and non-govern-ment organisations need to speed efforts to lift millions of urban people out of poverty, Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday. The country's fast-expanding major cities are home to 80 lakh urban extreme poor, with Dhaka alone accommodating more than half. Every year, a large …
MUMBAI: An expert panel formed by the Mumbai Transformation Support Unit (MTSU), a government think-tank on infrastructure projects for the city, has recommended unlocking certain No Development Zone (NDZ) areas and saltpan lands in order to accommodate more affordable housing projects. Citing dearth of available land for development, the panel
Equally Effective In Ensuring Service: Study New Delhi: Transparency measures like the Right To Information Act are intended to reduce levels of corruption, but is there any proof that this actually happens? Two field experiments in Delhi by Yale University researchers suggest that this might be true; transparency measures are …
Urban water and sanitation service delivery in Orissa could significantly improve by achieving these key objectives. This communication strategy intends to provide support to achieve the objectives of: Building constituency and support for water and sanitation sector reforms initiatives among diverse stakeholders; Promoting people’s participation for improving and sustaining service …
Ranchi, April 28: The committee formed by the government to suggest a slum policy for Jharkhand has recommended rehabilitation of only BPL individuals among those displaced by the statewide anti-encroachment drive, signalling no reprieve for the other sections. The three-member panel, headed by development commissioner Debashish Gupta and including revenue …
We are so used to turning our eyes away when we see somebody defecating in the open that we fail to reflect on this widespread practice, prevalent much more in India than in other countries. It is not only visually disturbing but has hazardous implications for public health in our …
The allocation of the 16,000 flats constructed for slum dwellers under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission would begin from June, Delhi Urban Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said on Wednesday following a visit to a camp organised in this connection at Raja Garden. Mr. Chauhan said after verification …
JAMMU, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla, today said Government is launching several reformative measures to better living standards of urban slum population of the State. This was stated by the Minister while interacting with locals after assessing the development related problems of the residents of Kaccha Talab …
The Karnataka High Court has directed the BDA and the BBMP to establish a park in Srinivasanagar in Banashankari 3rd Stage after the residents petitioned it stating that the designated park area was housing a slum. Abhaya, a residents
MUMBAI: The state public works department (PWD) will construct a building in every district using crushed sand, instead of river sand, to see if it can be an effective substitute. In a letter last month, the PWD told its regional offices to use crushed sand and report its efficacy within …
