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. …
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 …
Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagde on Thursday directed the civic staff to speed up the development work being carried out under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), so that new proposals could be sent to the union government for approval.
The City Development Plan for Bhopal deals with a comprehensive, cohesive and concise manner, all the important elements of governance in the form of themes: Urban Growth Management/ Development Planning, Urban Basic Services and Infrastructure, Transportation and Traffic Management, Housing and Slums, Urban Environment, Social Development, Urban Governance and Management …
Mumbai: The state cabinet's decision to extend the cut-off date of the slums to January 1, 2000 from the earlier date of January 1, 1995 will benefit more than 20 lakh people in nearly five lakh slums across the city. The decision, taken on Wednesday comes only with a rider …
Mumbai Worried over the rising number of hutments and illegal constructions, the Shiv Sena-ruled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to come up with a fact-based white paper on the slums, which were built between 1995 and 2004. The civic administration has said that despite taking regular action, a large …
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has asked Chief Ministers to amend the existing city planning models and prepare and implement
Making cities slum-free is well-worn rhetoric lacking credibility. When Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee promised, in his recent budget speech, that India would become slum-free in five years, there was little enthusiasm. The allocation of Rs.3,973 crore has failed to provide real hope. Slum clearance schemes, as they were previously known, …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, DH News Service: It has been life on the footpath for the last 50 days for 32 families of Desheya Nagar slum in Fraser Town. Braving the vagaries of weather, these families are leading an unenviable existence here. While some of them were lucky enough to be …
Mumbai A day after the state government-appointed committee for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) wrote a strong letter against the manner of implementation of the project, it has challenged the very concept of free housing for slumdwellers. The ten-member expert committee, comprising retired IAS officials, urban planners, activists and architects, …
Mumbai The Rs 1,500-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) is now being opposed by the very expert committee appointed by the state government to ensure its smooth implementation. In an open letter addressed to the Chief Minister on Tuesday, the committee minced no words and termed the project
