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. …
Mumbai They live in slums, all below the poverty line. Today they have got jobs that will pay between Rs 4,500 and Rs 5, 500 a month, at places such as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Landmark, and at a time employees everywhere live in fear of pink slips. The Brihanmumbai …
NEW DELHI: The Centre will formulate a new scheme for slum dwellers and the urban poor in an effort to promote a slum-free India in the next five years. The Rajiv Awas Yojana will focus on according property rights to slum dwellers and urban poor by the States, providing basic …
Sustained reduction in urban poverty requires high income growth, an inclusive urban policy focused on a functioning land and housing market, adherence to the JNNURM protocol, and a dedicated mission to make cities slum-free - this is the conclusion of a study undertaken to produce
Mumbai Owners of private land pockets in Dharavi that have so far been kept out of the purview of the Rs 15,000 crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), can now avail of higher vertical limit in case they decide to be part of the project. A month before the financial bids …
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 …
