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. …
Bangladesh also has the highest number of urban people living below the poverty line – 21%, as opposed to 14% in India, 13 % in Pakistan, 5% in Sri Lanka and 15% in Nepal Bangladesh has the highest number of slum dwellers – 60% of the urban population – in …
Nearly 65 percent of people in the capital move on foot and pedal-powered rickshaws while only 3 percent on private cars, showing a gross social disparity, a planning commission member told a discussion yesterday. “Over 40 percent of the poor in the capital city live in slums,” Prof Shamsul Alam …
The National Green Tribunal has asked the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to explain why action should not be taken if it is found that it issued Occupancy Certificate (OC) to a developer when the case pertaining to non-obtainment of CRZ clearance for a project in Prabhadevi was pending. Social activist …
Ana Paulino, a 40-year-old street vendor in Luanda, balances plastic cans of water four times as heavy as a bowling ball on top of her head every morning and night for quarter-mile trips to the nearest well. That’s a burden shared by many women in the capital of Angola, sub-Saharan …
They call them “flying toilets” – the bags of human poo that are thrown out of the windows of the thousands of small shacks that make up Nairobi’s slums. The largest of Nairobi’s informal settlements is Kibera, just three miles from the city centre. An estimated one million people live …
Atleast 50 per cent households in every area in the M-East ward stay in average or inadequate housing conditions, the highest being in Mankhurd (63.76 per cent in average and 10.72 per cent in inadequate conditions), Vashi Naka (62.28 per cent in average and 2.14 per cent in inadequate) and …
The highest rate of malnutrition has been found among children living in the slums of the country, revealed the Bangladesh Urban Health Survey 2013 report yesterday. Fifty percent of the slum children below five years are stunted, whereas the percentage stands at 33 in non-slum areas. The rates were 57 …
The report includes the WorldRiskIndex 2014 and furthermore has a focus on cities as risk areas. The WorldRiskIndex calculates the disaster risk for 171 countries. The risk analysis does not only examine how often and how severely a natural event (e.g. an earthquake) threatens the population, but also the vulnerability …
The city administration is planning to set up special healthcare centres in slum clusters and unauthorised colonies in the national capital to improve health facilities. According to a senior official, the city’s health department is contemplating setting up special healthcare centres in several JJ clusters and unauthorised colonies on a …
India will need an investment of Rs 50 lakh crores in the next few years to fund the NDA government’s urban renewal initiatives of smart cities, housing for all and issues relating to the development of urban infrastructure, urban development minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Thursday. The Modi government’s …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests is examining a proposal to change its norms to permit 100 per cent private schemes in slum rehabilitation projects in the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) areas. This is in sharp contrast to the present mandatory norm of implementing such projects under the Public-Private Partnership …
The city administration is set to provide toilet facilities in as many as 700 slum clusters in the city as a party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Swachchh Bharat” campaign. The initiative will be undertaken and executed by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) in all the jhuggi jhopri …
The Pune Municipal Corporation is aiming for `zero maternal deaths' in civic hospitals and maternity homes. Civic officials will also undertake awareness drives in slums, municipal schools and other parts of the city. “The PMC will gather information on reasons behind maternal deaths in civic-run maternity homes,“ PMC additional commissioner …
The urban slum area located at the heart of National Capital had over 65% people defecating in the open. The approach was community-led where entire financing for toilets was done by the community itself. Across 7 slums where such intervention is in progress the communities have invested around Rs 20 …
After residents of Savdha Ghera, a resettlement colony in Southwest Delhi, residents of slums in areas under the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will soon get access to water-dispensing machines — similar to ATMs. The civic agency also plans to install the water-dispensing machines in Sarojini Nagar. An official said …
The central government has chosen 62 locations across the country as experimental areas for new-style urbanization, pushing forward the grand strategy that Premier Li Keqiang said will greatly stimulate China's economy. The 62 areas range from provincial and city levels to county and town levels, although the focus will be …
Around 400 projects across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) are awaiting appraisal for environment clearances since July since the regulatory body has remained non-functional for two months. These projects not only pertain to real estate development, but also to information technology parks, commercial hubs, college expansion and hospital revamp plans. …
Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of A. Narayanan Vs Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 04/09/2014 regarding rehabilitation of slum dwellers.
Rs 42-cr DUSIB plan to improve sanitation in Jhuggi Jhompri clusters The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has decided to provide toilet facilities to all the slum dwellers under a sanitation strategy. The chief executive officer of DUSIB, Amar Nath, said that the board has planned to upgrade the …
An advisory panel to devise sanitation strategy in slums has been constituted. As announced by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech to provide toilet facilities in cities, villages and slums, the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has decided to provide toilet facilities to all slum-dwellers in all …
