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. …
In Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, the tsunami disaster of 2004 forced new ways of working on both organizations of the urban poor and local authorities. Building on this experience, an emerging federation of the urban poor (built on community savings groups) has been collaborating with local authorities to secure land and …
This paper describes the nationwide “slum” upgrading (Baan Mankong) programme in Thailand, which supports community organizations to find their own solutions to getting land for housing. Between 2003 and 2008, the programme supported 512 upgrading initiatives involving 1,010 communities. Community organizations form their own savings groups and draw on soft …
This paper describes two large-scale upgrading programmes in Argentina that sought to transfer land tenure to the inhabitants of informal settlements as part of a larger process that provided good quality infrastructure and services and other measures to strengthen their social inclusion in the wider city. In doing this, they …
This paper discusses the land struggles of the urban poor in Zimbabwe and the emerging strategies used by the alliance of the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation and its partner Dialogue on Shelter to address these struggles in the face of continued economic and political crisis. The paper looks at how …
This paper reviews whether land titling programmes have achieved the benefits claimed by their proponents. It finds that they have generally failed to do so. Investment in land and housing, access to formal credit, and municipal revenues have not increased noticeably more than under other tenure regimes, including those that …
The Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) was planned in 1962 as a goods service linking five important work areas of the city. Subsequently, it was upgraded for commuter use as well. Pakistan Railways now wish to upgrade and expand the circular railway and double-track those parts of it that are single …
This paper describes the changes in official policy on riverside development in Surabaya, negotiated by the residents of low-income riverside settlements through their organization, Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya (PWS). They shifted the official policy from relocation to redevelopment by organizing the riverside communities and by developing their own proposals to …
Mumbai The Rs 15,000-crore redevelopment project that many residents believe could oust them from their home and hearth may have redrawn battle lines in parts of Dharavi, but MLA Varsha Gaikwad is confident of her chances of getting re-elected.
MUMBAI: Four years after the BMC conducted a survey to assess the number of people who live below the below poverty line (BPL), the list is still not out. As a consequence, over 12 lakh families in the city who claimed to be in the category, have been left without …
MUMBAI: A high-powered committee and a police officer of the rank of an additional commissioner will vet 87 complaints in slum rehab cases in the city, the Bombay high court ruled on Thursday. "The very object of such welfare schemes would stand frustrated if genuine slum-dwellers are not provided with …
Pandurang Mhaske / DNA In what is probably the first case of its kind in Mumbai, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a show-cause notice to the builder of a mega slum redevelopment project in Worli. Reason: the project, the Mahalaxmi SRA Cooperative Society, does not have the …
A clinical trial okays an expensive vaccine for India typhoid is the fifth common disease in India; children are particularly vulnerable. But no vaccine to prevent this contagious disease has been part of the country
Mumbai: The state government has handed the redevelopment of a 140-acre plot to a single developer, skipping the competitive bidding process, by invoking a little-known clause of the Slum Rehabilitation Act, 1971. This is the first project to be allotted using this clause. Shivalik Ventures has bagged the Rs 3,500 …
Pune Seven slums in the city will be the first in the country to reap the benefits of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. Another first will be that the novel in-situ concept that has been adopted to rehabilitate some 1,200 families are high density slums of …
The people of the city are facing psychological and physical problems due to the penetration of commercial activities into residential areas. The University of Karachi Department of Geography conducted a study that is the first serious attempt to identify the spatial pattern of the commercial functions in the planned neighbourhoods …
Many believe Dhar MUMBAI: Many believe Dharavi, India's largest slum in the heart of Mumbai, is also Asia's largest. Wrong, says a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report. Karachi's Orangi township is Asia's largest slum. "Dharavi is not Asia's largest slum. Karachi's Orangi Township has surpassed Dharavi," the Human Development …
An illegal make-over of the ambitious Bengaluru Mysore Corridor leaves slumdwellers on the road and the Supreme Court toothless. FOURTEEN YEARS ago, 256 Dalit families from a village slum located just outside Bengaluru pitched tents and fashioned homes out of nothing. Come May 12, 2009 and not a single house …
This publication, prepared by the United Nations University and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, focuses on one of the themes from the World Water Forum held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 17-18 March 2009: it aims to contribute to the understanding of rural to rural, rural to urban and …
