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 generation of waste in the slums is one-fourth the amount of waste generated in lower-middle class and higher income households, according to a study conducted by students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collaboration with the city based SWaCH — Solid Waste Collection and Handling — a …
A proposal to construct houses of 500 sq ft to rehabilitate each slum family has been submitted to the general body . A proposal about the redevelopment of slums was discussed during the standing committee meeting in the first week of August.Corporators Shankar Kemse, Ravindra Dhangekar and Prithviraj Sutar gave …
Their population increased by 2.88 lakh during 2001-11 The slum dwellers in Jammu and Kashmir have increased by 2.88 lakh between 2001 and 2011 with the slum population crossing the staggering 6.5 lakh mark, this has been revealed in the Union Urban Development Ministry report. According to the Union Ministry, …
While the city has been witnessing an unprecedented increase in unauthorised colonies over the past few years, the number of slum dwellers in Delhi has decreased. As per the 2011 Census, the number of slum dwellers in the Capital decreased by around 2.5 lakh during the past decade. “People living …
Dhaka Wasa on Wednesday signed a deal with four NGOs to provide water connections to Sattola slum in the city’s Mohakhali area. Engr Taqsem A Khan, managing director of Dhaka Wasa, and representatives from Dustha Shasthya Kendra (DSK), Nagar Sheba, NDBUS and Bangladesh Association for Social Advancement (BASA) signed the …
Finding parking space in Delhi is like a treasure hunt. The growing number of cars has led to a scramble for vacant slots and frayed nerves. Rajinder Bhatia's death in west Patel Nagar underlines a larger issue and a crime pattern that needs a closer look. According to a study …
The state government's resolution to extend the slum regularization cut-off date from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000 is unlikely to help curb proliferation of new slums in the city , say civic officials and urban planners. A government resolution (GR) extending the cutoff date as well as rules …
Pakistan may adopt some concepts implemented in the Sabarmati riverfront project for its ambitious Ravi Riverfront Urban Development (RRFUD) project, said members of the high-level delegation of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday. The team led by the LDA commissioner made a detailed technical inspection of the 11-km riverfront …
In what speaks volumes about poor performance of the housing schemes for urban slum dwellers under the UPA’s key flagship programme, JNNURM, just 8.15 lakhs out of the total 14.42 lakhs sanctioned houses constructed from 2005 to June 2014. Similarly, while construction is under progress in 3.83 lakhs houses, work …
As part of a plan to create slum-free cities, the government on Tuesday announced that 10,000 flats would be constructed in Chennai and other cities and towns in the state. “To fulfil the Vision 2023 and slum-free cities plan of the Union and state governments, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance …
According to this 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects produced by the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs Africa and Asia are urbanizing faster than other regions and the largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria. These three countries will …
Modification to the 2011 Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification to allow reclamation for the Coastal Road Project and waiver of the joint venture that requires the state to have a 51 per cent stake in slum rehabilitation projects in CRZ-II areas were some of the major CRZ concessions state officials …
Approval To Investment In Solar Energy Giving a fillip to tourism in Uttar Pradesh, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved a new heritage tourism policy for UP. Once implemented, the policy will enlist guidelines for maintenance and upkeep of heritage buildings including forts, palaces and havelis in UP which may …
For the first time in human history the urban population outnumbers the rural one. This is both due to villages growing to become towns and cities, and migration of the rural population to urban cities. According to the UN’s calculations, in 2003 870 million people lived in slums, and this …
Says one third of the world's 1.2 billion extreme poor lived in India alone in 2010 India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals that said while several key global targets have been met, more sustained effort is …
Urban governance and housing for all are a challenge and states and union territories need to work together to achieve this goal, said Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu. Slum-free plan of action is the need of the hour, he said. The Minister was addressing the Conclave of Ministers of …
NSSO has released the key indicators on Drinking water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition in India based on 69th round survey (July 2012 – December 2012). The last survey on these subjects was undertaken in the 65th round of NSS (July 2008- June 2009). The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) …
Anticipating resistance in acquiring land for the developers’ sale component in the decade-old Dharavi revamp project, the authority in-charge has tweaked the draft development plan for the slum sprawl, deleting separate markings for sale and rehab housing. The final version of the Dharavi development plan, which has now been sent …
Good sense seems to have finally prevailed with the state department of urban development permitting BMC to provide water connections to all slums in the city. Six months ago, municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte had written to the department seeking permission to provide water connections to slums that had come up …
Therapeutic food interventions have reduced mortality in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), but incomplete restoration of healthy growth remains a major problem. The relationships between the type of nutritional intervention, the gut microbiota, and therapeutic responses are unclear. In the current study, bacterial species whose proportional representation define a …
