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. …
The household waste is disposed of either via a door-to-door collection system, which is not so common, or in municipal facilities. Excluding posh residential and commercial colonies, most of the households, shops and other establishments throw waste as and when it is generated. At some places, where bins have been …
"We simply dispose waste in abandoned quarries and other areas,' said Dhaigude, when asked about the waste disposal system in Mumbai. In the parlance of the municipal officials, disposal of waste means dumping. Besides open dumping, the most commonly-practised methods for disposing of waste are sanitary landfilling (slf) and composting. …
They are seen almost everywhere, rummaging through heaps of garbage. The police harass them and the local people view them with suspicion. Hardly anyone understands the importance of their work. Ragpickers, in fact, do the municipalities a big favour by collecting recyclable wastes from the dump to sell it to …
CLEANING BRIDGE Iqbal Malik, director of Vatavaran, started work on solid waste management way back in 1992. With the help of a few residents in Asiad Village Complex in New Delhi, she launched the Cleaning Brigade (cb) scheme. It was to be a practical, eco-friendly, scientific, zero investment yet income-generating …
India is today one of the filthiest countries in the world but urban India"s garbage disposal can be easily managed if we get rid of the highly-bureaucratised, incompetent and corrupt municipal collection system and make it the responsibility of urban households and communities - literally implement the same participatory paradigm …
Notwithstanding protests from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) that it encroached upon their jurisdiction, the Delhi government launched its "Clean Delhi' campaign in the Nirman Vihar colony in east Delhi on December 21. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit had made no bones about her disapproval of the MCD's way …
Four years after a plague that claimed many lives in Surat, Gujarat, the city has become one of the cleanest in India. Out of a total of 1,008 metric tonnes of solid waste generated in the city every day, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) handles around 960 metric tonnes. This …
Thirty two-year-old Mannoj Ahuja has been living in Janakpuri colony in west Delhi for the last eleven years. He is part of a group of residents who literally live in a lane overflowing with garbage. The stench of rotting wastes and stray dogs rummaging through them, their bodies sullied with …
There is just too much of it. And all of us contribute liberally every day. But what if the ragpicker doesn't come one day? What if the garbage-collecting truck doesn't arrive? What if
The residents of Kuil Thothom, a slum tenement in Santhome, Chennai, have a lot to be thankful to the Rotary Club of Madras Central, especially R Jeyakumar, its chairperson. The club helped in bringing clean water to their homes. The need to explore the possibility of rooftop rainwater harvesting in …
The people of Kashmir have only the Dal to offer to tourists. Brochures are full of life on the Dal lake. Pictures of houseboats used to attract hordes of tourists to the Dal year after year. The Dal was virtually the economic lifeline of Kashmir. One of the large lakes …
This paper discusses the political circumstances which help explain why the insanitary living conditions of such a large section of India’s urban population have been ignored, and contrasts these with the circumstances which explain successful sanitary reform in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. In India, there …
compulsory acquisition of land by public and private sector companies often displaces people, forcing them to give up their homes, assets, means of livelihood and even vocation. More often than not, the affected families are driven towards poverty a state of relegation, loss of livelihood and destitution. The presumption that …
the Viviendas del Hogar de Cristo (Christ's home dwellings, or chd ) housing project in Ecuador is a housing development organisation with a difference: it builds homes from locally-produced bamboo panels as a solution to the dreadful housing conditions of poor people living in Guayaquil. Simple and easy to construct, …
To study the association between ambient air pollutants (AAP) and respiratory symptoms complex (RSC) in preschool children, a cohort of 664 children between the ages of 1 month to 4.5 yr were randomly selected from 28 slums (anganwadi centres) of Lucknow, north India. They were followed up fortnightly for six …
"You couldn't do anything that would give a villager greater satisfaction than giving him a house," said the Prime Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, speaking at the valedictory session of the National Consultation on Rural Housing - Enhancing Capacity for People's Participation and Technology Transfer held in New Delhi from …
WHEN the police fired upon and killed 4 of a violent crowd of slumdwellers of Shahid Sukhdev Nagar in North Delhi's Ashok Vihar, it was not only defecation rights that were in question. The January 31 incident was the apogee of decades of discontent among the 8.1 million slumdwellers -- …
Samar Baruskar was arrested on December 14, 1994, by the Sion police in Bombay for trespassing in a private building. He was looking for a toilet. The small plot of land that the residents of nearby Mangla chawl used as a ground-zero lavatory became the site for a multistoreyed apartment …
