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 addresses climate change and slum-based poverty among the challenges of sustainable urbanisation. It asserts that the slums will also be the locations most vulnerable to hazards linked to extreme weather, such as flooding or hurricanes, and thus advocates for hazard mitigation strategies to have a
South Asia has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, despite rapid economic growth compared to other regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Known as the
The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructure? Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The …
This paper, based on qualitative research within two communities in Addis Ababa, identifies factors that impoverish households and expose them to chronic food shortages, and assesses their coping and survival strategies. A sustainable livelihood framework is used to explore how context, shocks, assets, institutions, activities and strategies interact in multiple …
This paper describes an enumeration of all households living in informal settlements in Kisumu, Kenya, implemented by their inhabitants and supported by savings groups, the Kenyan Homeless People
Pune Two previous plans yet to take off The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that has not met with success in implementing slum rehabilitation projects under the Maharashtra Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), is making a pitch for more funds, this time from …
Two billion tons of human and animal waste and industrial pollution are dumped into waterways every day around the world, according to reports released in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 17th annual World Water Day
Governments across the world have done well collectively to lift 227 million people out of slum conditions, surpassing the Millennium Development target by 2.2 times. The achievements of China and India in particular have been spectacular, commends the UN-HABITAT report on the
AHMEDABAD: Civic body's relocation of slum dwellers living along the Sabarmati riverfront has drawn flak from the affected families. As many as 200 families protested against the relocation drive of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) from their present location on riverfront to far off areas in Vatva, Naroda, among other areas …
Mumbai: Confirming the allegations made in a public interest litigation (PIL), the director of Sanjay Gandhi National Park on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that over 800 flats allotted to those evicted from the park, have been illegally sold or leased out. Janhit Manch, a local NGO, had initiated …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union government has set up an independent eight-member expert committee to review the draft guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a housing scheme for slum dwellers and urban poor. Chaired by Deepak Parekh, the committee will give its comments on the scheme. This was announced …
The government has decided to refer the draft guidelines of its ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a scheme to make India slum-free, to an independent panel. The eight-member expert panel, headed by HDFC Bank chairman Deepak Parekh, has been asked to give its recommendations within a month from its first …
Delhi Government has prepared a list of 44 JJ clusters which would be relocated during Commonwealth Games 2010 under its ambitious Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna. The locations of the slum clusters are bound to cause political tremor as it would the voters' politics of several constituencies. In the first phase …
Mumbai: To research on and influence the processes of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has now set up an Urban India Reform Facility, or UIRF. Otherfocus areas will include schemes like Integrated Housing and …
Although informal settlements are proliferating in cities across low- and middle-income nations, there is 40 years of experience to draw on in upgrading these
Bijay Sankar Bora UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said the Centre would soon unveil an urban health mission on the lines of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to look after healthcare needs of urban poor and slum dwellers. Addressing a function at Mawdiangdiang on the outskirts of Meghalaya
A trial of a new oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata is promising but, as Patralekha Chatterjee reports, a vaccine is only one weapon in the battle against the disease.
The Delhi government is looking forward to table two Legislative bills in the upcoming Budget Session of the state Assembly next month. The city government has sent the "Delhi Urban Shelter Bill, 2010" to the Centre for approval, after incorporat- ing suggestions of the Central government, which seeks to establish …
Residential welfare associations are a window of opportunity to consolidate loose networks of local associations engaged in activities around urban services. They have changed the dynamics of urban politics. This article attempts to trace how, while working in an increasingly globalised and polarised city like Bangalore, these groups demand a …
