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: 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 …
Mumbai: The Environment Impact Assessment Authority has made it mandatory for projects spread over more than 20,000 sq metres (built-up area) to set aside a corpus to maintain, operate a sewage treatment plant for three to five years. Nair Singh, chairperson of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and member of …
Kenya's huge and squalid slums don't have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease. Now Kenyan designers have built a cooker that uses the trash as fuel to feed the poor, provide hot water and destroy toxic waste, as well as curbing …
In the current financial crisis, risk-weary investors worry more about keeping their own boats afloat than in pumping money into a sector noted for high upfront costs, long pay back periods and low rates of return. Add to that an inefficient use of resources, weak regulation and lack of up-to-date …
Millennial Delhi is changing rapidly. Between 1990 and 2003, 51,461 houses were demolished in Delhi under "slum clearance" schemes. Between 2004 and 2007 alone, however, at least 45,000 homes were demolished, and since the beginning of 2007, eviction notices have been served on at least three other large settlements. Fewer …
KOLKATA, March 30: Unable to complete its slum development projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme on time, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) now faces a cost escalation of around Rs 80 crore. This amount will be borne by the civic body. A civic official pointed …
Nearly 2,500 dwellers of eight slums in Faridpur district headquarters are now living in hygienic and pollution free environment following implementation of a pilot project styled "Integrated Urban Development (IUD)". Before implementation of the project, poverty and unhygienic environmental surroundings were the part and parcel of life of these underprivileged …
SHASHANKSHEKHAR MUMBAI. MARCH 22 THE developers of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) are likely to get some breathing space from encroaching slums as 20,000 of the 8,50,000 families inhabiting the area arc expected to be relocated by November, according to real estate developer Housing Development & Infrastructure Limited ( HDI …
Mumbai: The Democratic Front government on Monday reiterated its commitment to transforming Mumbai into a world class city. In his address to the joint session of the state legislature at Vidahan Bhawan, the governor of Maharashtra SC Jamir outlined the socio-economic and political priorities of the Congress-NCP government. The 20-page …
The traditional non-politics of Indian cities is confronted by rapid urbanization THERE are signs that urban India is discovering politics after a long interval. City after congested city is demanding funds for new, comfortable buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Municipal managers see a clear political advantage …
Mumbai: It all started with a dream that MBA student Ankit Jain had around a year ago in which he saw himself serving food to the poor at a slum near his college Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) at Juhu. He and three of his classmates then embarked …
Integrating gender into climate change policy at the local, national and international levels is of paramount importance. Here Lucia Kiwala, Chief of UN-HABITAT
