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. …
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 …
Mumbai In the wake of the ongoing water crisis, the Hydraulic Engineering Department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has suspended no-objection certificates (NOC) for water supply to buildings meant to rehabilitate slumdwellers around the airport. This was revealed in a reply to a RTI application filed by BJP leader Parag …
New Delhi: Coming to the rescue of slum dwellers, the Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the government and civic agencies to rehabilitate slum-dwellers even if they were encroaching on public land.
Mumbai Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has ordered to stop demolition of slums in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park immediately. He was speaking at a meeting organised on Thursday regarding slums at Malwani and private forest lands at Bhandup and Mulund. He also asked for a proposal regarding the land acquisition …
New Delhi: India is going to map its slums. And for Mumbai, where proliferating slums are a nightmare for civic planners, it should bring hope. The ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation (Hupa) will do satellite mapping of all slums in the country under the slum-free cities initiative of …
The National Urban Health Mission was supposed to address the unmet health needs of urban Indians. Yet, it has failed to commence work even 18 months after the announcement of its formation. A rapidly urbanising India has been marked by a series of epidemics of communicable diseases in the last …
Pune Maharastra still figures among states that show a high prevalence of malnutrition and it is the slum areas in urban pockets that have an increasing incidence, said a report on the nutritional crisis in Maharashtra. The report also observed that not only are half the women anaemic in the …
Tired of the mainstream media describing their neighbourhood as a hotbed of crime, a group of people from one of Buenos Aires’ largest slums have brought out a magazine aimed at breaking down the stereotype. The weekly Desde Adentro (From the Inside) focusses on youth, education, health and housing problems …
Mumbai: Kamaraj Nagar, popularly known as mini-Dharavi, is set to become one of the biggest redevelopment projects in the city. The ownership of the 46-acre slum abutting the Eastern Express Highway in Ghatkopar (east) has changed hands and now lies with Champalal Vardhan of the Neelam Group. Kamaraj Nagar marks …
Mumbai: While campaigning for the recent assembly elections chief minister Ashok Chavan had promised legal water supply for non-notified slums built before 2000. What Chavan did not know is that many of these slums already have legal water supply connections. Even though the municipal laws do not permit water connections …
Over 2,000 slum-dwellers marched to the district collector’s office at Bandra on December 10, the international human rights day. They were protesting the proposed expansion of the Mumbai international airport that is likely to displace about 85,000 families living in surrounding slums. The protestors handed over a charter of demands …
The Vice-Chairman of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Ashok Kumar, has identified the in-situ development of slums and the construction of houses for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Lower IncomeGroups (LIG) as areas of focus in 2010. While the authority is anxious about ensuring that all Commonwealth Games related …
Mumbai The Committee of Secretaries discussing the Rs 15,000-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project on Wednesday decided to appoint a subcommittee that will submit a report within 15 days on how to take forward the project that has been caught in a series of tangles. It will include the principal secretaries of …
