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. …
This paper attempts to identify a strategy for improving collaboration between stakeholders working in Dhaka city to improve climate change resilience of the urban water and sanitation (WATSAN) sector, with a focus on the urban poor. The findings are derived from reviewing existing literature and consultations with 32 key informants …
While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the everyday practice and experience of going to dysfunctional toilets, particularly by women. By analysing the practices and problems associated with …
City NGOs have begun a survey of vacant lands in Chennai to facilitate rehabilitation of people living in slums near their places of work. At a public meeting on ‘Chennai residents’ right to the city’, on Saturday, organised by Transparent Cities Network, civil society organisations stressed the need for preventing …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on people living in urban slums, 06/08/2015. As per the Census figures, the slum population in the country has increased from 5.23 crores in 2001 to 6.55 crores in 2011. A Statement giving slum population as per Census 2001 & 2011 and change in population …
The National Green Tribunal today issued notice to 66 offenders who were caught dumping waste on railway tracks in the national capital and refused to pay Rs 5,000 fine as per orders of the green panel. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed these persons to be …
This report discusses how the major urban development schemes in India do not adequately take into account issues related to children’s health, education, growth, safety and participation. The rising urbanisation in India presents an opportunity to design child-friendly cities, those that have a system of local governance, are committed to …
Sites in Dwarka, Sultanpuri and Bhalsawa have been earmarked for the rehabilitation scheme, said sources. In a bid to keep one of its major promises to the people of Delhi, the AAP government wants to start work on its slum rehabilitation programme soon, and various government departments have already started …
Around the world people use bank machines to access cash: but in the Kenyan capital's crowded slums, people now use similar machines to access an even more basic requirement -- clean water. In a bid to boost access to clean water, four water dispensing machines have been installed in Nairobi …
At the slum decadal growth rate of 34%, the slum households are projected to go upto 18 million. 2 million non-slum urban poor households are proposed to be covered under the Mission. Hence, total housing shortage envisaged to be addressed through the new mission is 20 million. The Mission will …
The Delhi Assembly passed three Bills, including one according university status to Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology and the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement (Amendment) Bill, on the first day of the Budget session on Tuesday. The House also passed the Delhi Legislative Assembly Members (Prevention of Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill by …
With cities increasingly in the spotlight on the international stage, urban planning and development has become a critical issue in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While slums continue to grow in most developing countries, reinforcing other forms of inequality, urban planning requires a shift from viewing urbanisation mainly as a …
MUMBAI: Every monsoon, the BMC is deluged with complaints of water contamination. So this year, the civic body has increased the number of sampling points in the city. Around 30 new sampling points would be added, especially in slum areas, where the number of water contamination complaints is higher. Every …
Mumbai was the first Indian city to introduce free in-situ housing for slum residents in 1998. The NDA government’s proposed ‘Housing For All’ mission will pave way for private developers to leverage public land in order to redevelop slums in-situ. The proposed policy of using land as a resource will …
This report provides a comprehensive overview of progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, based on official indicators and data. Relying on statistical evidence, the report pinpoints what goals and targets have been met, by when and where, and in what areas has progress been inadequate compared …
CANBERRA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- An Australian company lighting India's slums with solar energy is providing a solution to the problem of deadly air pollution in India's poorest areas. Pollinate Energy, a small company founded by five Australians, is slowing changing the way the people in India's slums light the …
Bhashantek slum residents are paying five times higher than the other Dhaka city dwellers pay for getting minimum facilities of sanitation and waste management. But they are being deprived of the facilities as well as their fundamental rights. “There is no garbage container to dispose domestic waste and sanitary sewer …
Move aimed at ensuring no beneficiary can avail of free or concessional housing more than once. The state government has directed the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to create an Aadhaar card-based database of all slum-dwellers who have been rehabilitated in new houses, and ensure the information is readily available on …
Will have a list of low-lying areas, dilapidated buildings, ham radios A disaster management plan for Chennai is in the works, following alarm over a series of earthquakes that have recently occurred in Nepal, and the tremors felt in various parts of the country, including here. The Commissionerate of Revenue …
The government should formulate a policy for bettering water and sanitation services in slums and coordinating relevant non-government organisations' activities, speakers told a workshop yesterday. Stakeholders' collaboration will expedite the urban climate resilience process and reduce overlapping of activities, they said, adding that the five million slum dwellers in Dhaka …
Climate change in Ethiopia is occurring against a backdrop of rapid population growth and urbanization, entrenched poverty and a heavy burden of disease, and there is little information on specific health risks with which to approach adaptation planning and strengthen adaptive capacity. Using detailed household surveys (400 households, 1660 individuals, …
