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 paper is a scoping exercise to explore options for research on urban poverty in developing countries. Based on a review of the literature and experience, the first part of the paper reviews the changing nature of the urban poverty agenda over the last 30 years by comparing today
24% Of Shanties Along Drains, 12% Beside Rly Tracks: NSSO Mahendra Kumar Singh | TNN New Delhi: Even as the Indian economy remains one of the bright spots in the world showing an upward growth trajectory, around 49,000 slums continue to blight the urban landscape forcing lakhs of people to …
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned. Together estimated to displace over 18,000 families from the banks of the Cooum, these two projects testify to how waterfront development, …
This study explored the feasibility and acceptability of harvested rainwater in rural communities of Bangladesh as well as densely populated City like Dhaka, using simple and low-cost technology. As a part of this study, a field survey was conducted in the water-scarce Dhaka City. Four slums were selected for conducting …
Reversing wrongs could be a better idea than throwing rights at people whose strength is used up entirely in the daily struggle against exclusion. Running to courts to enforce their rights is not even on the periphery of their consciousnes
The residents of Golibar slum colony near Mumbai airport have sniffed a scam in the state housing agency’s rehabilitation plan for them. They found the land where they are being resettled is encroached land belonging to the Air Force. About 550 families have already been shifted there in six housing …
NEW DELHI: After Shillong ranked 18th in terms of good urban sanitation and cleanliness among Indian cities, the "Scotland of the East" is found to be the only State capital in the entire north-eastern region having a slum population of over 50,000. After Shillong, Delhi and Chandigarh are other cities, …
Ahmedabad: The slumdwellers, displaced due to the Sabarmati riverfront project, were allotted houses under economically weaker section (EWS) scheme in the city on Monday. In the first draw, 2,371 houses were allocated under the rehabilitation scheme, out of which 271 slum-dwellers living on the eastern bank, on the stretch between …
Sri Lankan government is taking measures to eradicate the slums and shanties in the capital Colombo and provide proper housing to the dwellers who have occupied the land illegally. Sri Lanka Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who has been put in charge of the Urban Development Authority (UDA) recently told the …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday asked officials of the Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other stakeholders to conduct an in-depth study on slum rehabilitation. A team comprising members of these agencies will also go to Mumbai to study Bombay Municipal Corporation efforts to rehabilitate Dharavi, Asia
This latest NSSO report on the condition of urban slums says that 49,000 slums were estimated to be in existence in urban India in 2008-09. It provides data on living facilities like drinking water, toilet, sewerage, drainage and garbage disposal.The main aim of the survey on condition of slums was …
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for …
The favelas, or shanty to - wns of Brazil, are a uniform red ochre of unplaster - ed brick walls. But two artists from the Netherlands want to paint them every colour under the sun to showcase their colourful soul. In Feb ruary, Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn started with …
The entire stretch of the green belts in Sector-31 today stands just in name. While the stretch near the Nithari village is usurped by the slum dwellers, a little ahead of the green belt is barren land with all kinds of junk material thrown in. But the biggest jolt to …
The Union hous ing and urban poverty alleviation (HUPA) ministry has advised the states to prepare the state slum-free plan of action in two parts. These plans, to be prepared in the context of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), would aim at not only getting an idea of the existing slums …
Many see slums as failed parts of cities. They are regarded as parts of a city that do not conform to ruling ideas of an ideal city held by people in other parts of the city. There have been some changes in the way people have looked at slums ever …
Amiddle-aged woman whose only trips out of home have been to the neighbourhood grocer’s store describes what it means to suddenly become the sole bread earner. A man whose first act after buying a fridge is to cut off his neighbour’s electricity connection. A slaughterhouse hand talks of slitting necks …
