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. …
A presentation of an ethnography of the relationship between urban spaces, new cultures of consumption, the state, and the making of middle class identities in India. Firstly, the discussion explores the making of new urban spaces by focusing upon the Akshardham Temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna river …
Rs 1.5 lakh Central assistance to be given to each family. Conditional aid Assistance is, however, conditional upon the State governments concerned assigning property rights to slum-dwellers. Harish Damodaran, New Delhi, June 23 Barely a fortnight after the President
MUMBAI: Ignoring their own economic survey which said that outsiders were a burden on the infrastructure, the Congress-led Democratic Front government is all set to extend the cut-off date for slum rehabilitation from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000. This will be the third extension of the deadline, first …
Sanjeev Sanyal / June 11, 2009, 0:25 IST India needs to urbanise more quickly and this can be done by making smaller urban centres a magnet for rural migration. The new government has promised to remove all slums from urban India within five years. A worthy goal perhaps, but it …
Mumbai Just when it appeared that the long-delayed Dharavi Redevelopment Project was on track, it has hit another obstacle, in the form of a strongly-worded letter from a government-appointed committee of experts to the government, recommending that the project management consultant, Mukesh Mehta, be immediately removed. Mehta, known to have …
Over 50,000 people are still living on the dangerous slopes of hills in the port city risking their lives to fall an easy prey to landslide in the upcoming rainy season. Experts fear that callousness of the authorities concerned and lack of awareness among the landlords and tenants living on …
Greeshma Gopal Giri | ENS th the plans of developing the high speed corridor taking shape, slum dwellers in about 40,000 settlements ha Wiith the plans of de eloping the high speed corridor taking s in about ave ra sed relocated concern over being relocat aisedi MORE than one lakh …
KOLKATA, 27 May: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to construct dwelling units for slum dwellers who have been rendered homeless in the aftermath of cyclone Aila that hit the city on Monday. Announcing the decision today, mayor Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said it was brought to his notice …
Growth of Slums in Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA) in the last ten years has been nothing less than immense and spectacular. Using 1996 as the base year, the slum population in DMA was 1.5 million in 3007 clusters out of a total DMA population of 5.5 million. In 2005 the …
Mumbai A bold architectural design is now ready for a new Dharavi, complete with pedestrian-only roads, elevated walk-ways with green zones and a huge plaza housing residential and commercial units as well as schools and community spaces. The masterplan will serve as guidelines for the realty companies in the Rs …
BHUBANESWAR: In order to upgrade health-care situation of the slum-dwellers by involving urban local bodies (ULBs), the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is now planning to scale up services under its fold. The urban poor suffer from poorer health status because of lower access to housing, drinking water supply and …
May 13: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been sitting over two dozen other Bholakpurs in the city. As many as 25 slums at various places in the city are highly vulnerable to diarrhoea and gastro enteritis (GE) cases. Every year, several cases of diarrhoea and GE are reported …
Mamata Banerjee is a cult figure." This is how a Iwl resident of her constituency describes her. "She is I sure to crush her opponent, who is no match for her," he adds. This comment comes from a member of the upper middle class, the self-same group that analysts predict …
MUMBAI: Chief minister Ashok Chavan, while addressing a rally in Marol with Congress candidate Priya Dutt on Saturday, promised that the rehabilitation of project affected people staying in slums, would be undertaken with a human face. He said that as far as possible, those affected would be rehabilitated in the …
The government will start compensating locals within a few days for land acquisition in the ambitious Hatirjheel-Begunbari development project in the heart of the capital. Around Tk 488 crore has been handed over to the Dhaka deputy commissioner for the compensation. The state minister for public works, Abdul Mannan Khan, …
NEW DELHI: The Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha from Chandni Chowk, Kapil Sibal, inaugurated his campaign office in Trinagar here on Tuesday. Senior Congress leader Karan Singh and the area MLA, Anil Bhardwaj, were among those present. While canvassing in the Pitampura area, Mr. Sibal promised the jhuggi-jhonpri residents …
CONGRESS MP Eknath Gaik-wad, whose constituency includes Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, has assured that the redevelopment model of the sprawling slum will be replicated in other slums of the constituency. After delimitation, his Mumbai South-Central constituency includes slum-dominated parts of Mankhurd, Trombay, Sion and Kurla. "People already have high expectations …
