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. …
This new report on the state of food insecurity in urban India by MSSRF shows that the period of economic reforms and high GDP growth has not seen an unambiguous improvement in urban food security across all States. In recent years, the pace of urbanisation has been increasing. In deliberations …
KHAMMAM, Aug. 28: Khammam town got Rs 26.32 crore funds under Rajiv Awas yojana (RAY). The funds were released two days ago to the municipality to make Khammam town slum free. The aim of the RAY scheme is to develop the towns by 2015. The RAY scheme is centrally sponsored …
In a move to clear the longest-standing hurdle to critical development work on the highly-constrained airside of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, multiple agencies agreed on Friday to kickstart work on rehabilitating slumdwellers who occupy 276 acres of the airport land.Guardian minister for suburban Mumbai Naseem Khan, who convened a …
The makeover of the international airport in the city needs 60,000 families to be rehabilitated.But the agencies involved in the project have managed to acquire land just enough to accommodate 23,000 families.With adequate acquisition of land yet to be completed, the five-year plan of rehabilitation is expected to be delayed.Two …
THE Madras High Court has rejected a plea to restrain the TN Slum Clearance Board and other authorities from carrying out any reclamation and/or construction activity at Okkiyam-Thoraipakkam village and to restore the land to its original state. By a GO dated July 4, 2006, the revenue department alienated 7.95 …
Jamshedpur, July 27: It is a Rs 15.01-crore promise of better life for some 6,000 underprivileged denizens of the steel city. The Union urban development ministry today sanctioned the funds for development of four slums under the Adityapur Municipal Council and one under Jugsalai Municipality. Civic officials said the money …
Mumbai Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and Leader of the Opposition Eknath Khadse sparred in the Assembly today over alleged irregularities in SRA schemes in Mumbai. Khadse and other leaders accused the government of favouring builders; Chavan countered there had been contentious issues even during the Shiv Sena-BJP regime.
BHUBANESWAR: Even as eviction drive in the city assumes high pitch, for around 11 slums the future harbours good news. They would be relocated at Tangarahuda near Satichoura and settled on an expanse of over 14 acres laced with basic amenities. The process of transfer of the land from the …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi June 29, 2010, 0:32 IST The day Kumari Selja assumed charge as the Union minister for housing and urban poverty alleviation in the second United Progressive Alliance government, she got an unusual gift: a set of two books from none other than Prime Minister Manmohan …
Mumbai More than a year after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) came up with a project to protect the water mains and the adjoining municipal land from encroachments, barely 7 per cent of the total work has been completed. Of the total encroached area of 1.42 lakh square metres adjacent …
Mumbai At a time when the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) is scrounging for every available piece of land in Mumbai to augment the affordable housing stock, its proposal to redevelop sector five of Dharavi, if accepted by the government, will add 5,000 homes to the city
Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit, enterprise, ambitions and hope? Current plans are focused on profit-making, by developers and government, with the …
Mumbai After being relegated to cold storage for some time, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project will explore yet another model. In a first, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has proposed that it would like to develop one of the five sectors in the 2-sq-km slum sprawl on its …
Rajat Guha New Delhi: Unitech has ended its joint venture with its Mumbai partner Omkar Group for slum rehabilitation projects. Omkar is part of the Ghasiram Gokalchand Group, a steel business house in Mumbai.
A demolition and eviction drive by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) at Basaveshwara slum in Okalipura, turned ugly when some slumdwellers refused to vacate the area on Tuesday. According to BMRCL officials, a few residents who are said to be illegal tenants could not produce either a
This new assessment by UNDP based on a review of 50 country studies provides an action agenda for MDG acceleration by reviewing progress thus far. It also identifies the strategies, policies and interventions for further acceleration.Based on a review of 50 country studies, this Assessment finds that the resources and …
It is observed that in the State of Rajasthan a number of unauthorized slum areas have come up and there are difficulties in proper development of several of these slums. The Urban local bodies have been undertaking slum development and have also rehabilitated some of the slum dwellers to other …
