Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
JAMMU: Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora today informed the Lower House that Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) has sanctioned two housing schemes for houseless families of slum areas for providing dwelling units and allied infrastructure facilities under LNNURM. Replying to …
To assess the urban poverty alleviation work being done at the slum level, minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation Ajay Maken on Thursday said his ministry will frame "Slum Upgradation Index" city wise and state wise for monitoring the upgradation of slums in the country periodically. “A committee will …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat government has cleared a pilot project worth Rs 252.67 crore to make Ahmedabad slum-free. The clearance came at a meeting of the high-level state steering committee of the urban development mission, chaired by urban development minister Anandiben Patel. The project is to be executed under the centrally-sponsored Rajiv …
LAHORE – The fate of 40 slums has been hanging in the balance though the chief minister promised the betterment of these dwellers last year. These shocks have been established in various areas of the City, including Harbanspura Extension, Qalandarpura, Rehamanpura Ranipind, Nawazpura, Nawapind Harbanspura, Mochipura, Rasulpura, Basti Jewan Shah, …
In March 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia to share experiences and enhance lateral learning among ADB and its project partners on addressing gender and social inclusion issues in urban development projects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, …
Odisha is an attractive treasure house of cultures and customs, religions and traditions, languages and literature, art and architecture, scenic beauty and wildlife. Endowed with rich cultural heritage and bestowed with bounties of nature. Odisha is a fascinating state with majestic monuments, beautiful beaches, luxuriant forests, enchanting wildlife, etc. Given …
Residents staying in transit accommodation since 2006 By arbitrarily refusing to give No Objection Certificates (NOC) to a Rs. 100-cr. slum redevelopment project in Worli, Mumbai, the Western Naval Command has made more than 240 families homeless. The Naval authorities, however, have given a go-ahead to construction projects which have …
Recent reform programmes for achieving "slum-free" cities, like the Basic Services for the Urban Poor, signal a new integrated approach to slum redevelopment that combines housing, infrastructure and land titling. The new policy paradigm speaks the language of inclusiveness and efficiency, but its outcome has been far from ideal. This …
CM opens complex with provision for 1,500 homes; 850 units ready The residents of the erstwhile Ragigudda slum got secure shelters after a three-year wait on Wednesday, with Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar inaugurating the ‘Vivekananda Vasathi Sankeerna,’ a housing complex for 1,500 families from the slum. The slum-dwellers were displaced …
A Bill to provide for the identification, redevelopment, rehabilitation and for prevention of slums and to provide residential houses with infrastructural facilities, assigning property rights to identified slum dwellers and for matters connected therewith or incidental there to. This Act may be called the Odisha Property Rights to Slum Dwellers …
Move is aimed at reducing the concentration of slum tenements in one location The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) has decided to shift around 3,500 tenements from its Perumbakkam site to other sites that are coming up around the city. According to sources, this is being done as the …
Under the Central government’s scheme of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP), five slums of Shillong have been selected for upgradation. The selected slums are Mawbah, Demseniong, Lower Mawprem, Pyntohrumkhrah and Kynjatphutbol. Informing this here on Thursday, Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said that the total project cost has been …
The Punjab Government on Sunday approved a Rs 8,745 crore total revamp plan, under the Punjab Urban Development Mission (PUDM), to upgrade all civic amenities in all the 142 cities of the State. To be done on an integrated turnkey basis, a single agency would now provide the facilities with …
It is not just the Mithi river that is susceptible to degradation due to encroachment and dumping. There are at least two more rivers and six natural drains in the city that are highly vulnerable and in need of immediate attention, as per a recent study funded by the Mumbai …
Nearly 500 jhuggi dwellers from eight slum tenements on Wednesday became proud owners of their dwelling units, at least on paper, as they were presented with allotment letters to their houses at a function at Delhi Secretariat. The Government has in this scheme for the first time used biometrics to …
The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) would be undertaking a survey of the slums in Vellore Corporation with a view to replacing them with pucca individual houses or apartments under the Rajiv Awas Yojana, a housing scheme to be funded jointly by the Central and State governments, according to …
The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Wednesday approved construction of 7,400 houses for slum-dwellers under the Economically Weaker Section category at Bhalaswa Jahangirpuri. At a meeting in Delhi Secretariat, the Board also gave its nod for construction of a community hall at Trilokpuri and passed its budget for the …
Close on the heels of the state government declaring 2014 as the new cut-off date for the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) — the nodal agency for the execution of the revamp of sector five — has revised its own deadline. The agency …
This paper describes how a settlement profile, mapping and enumeration of Magada, an informal settlement in the town of Epworth just outside Harare, provided the basis for an upgrading programme. This was both in terms of the needed information and in terms of agreement between the residents and their community …
The Delhi government on Monday decided to expedite the construction of around 70,000 low-cost flats for slum dwellers while asking the concerned department to immediately start distribution of 14,000 flats completed. The 14,000 flats will be distributed among the residents of the slums which have come up on land owned …
