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 …
Ahmedabad: Finally, some relief is at hand for those fed up with slum pockets near their residential areas. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has taken the first step towards rehabilitating slum-dwellers. The civic body has initiated a socio-economic slum survey (SESS) in the newly merged areas that include the western part …
While analyzing the data and information on socio-economic conditions of slum dwellers in selected localities of Delhi NCR, the principal objective of the proposed study is to prepare a framework of social cost benefit analysis to evaluate alternative strategies aimed at developing the India’s capital in to a World Class …
AIZAWL, Sep 18 (IANS): The central government has sanctioned 134 projects worth Rs.2,610 crore for poverty alleviation, development of infrastructure and providing basic services in the urban areas of the eight northeastern states, an official release said here Sunday. "Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), 134 projects …
Urban Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan has told the Delhi Assembly that the Government was ready with 15,000 flats for the rehabilitation of slum dwellers. Speaking during a discussion on the “Condition of the slum katras and slum bastis '' on Monday, the Minister said allotment of 7,000 flats was …
The Asian Coalition for Community Action Program (ACCA) is a three-year program of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), and the program’s target is to support a process of city-wide upgrading in 150 Asian cities. Community people are the primary doers in planning and implementing projects in which they …
In the Municipal Council budget, nothing was earmarked for slums. At that time, Executive Officer K K Jain reasoned that the slums were on Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) land for non-allocation of funds. Now, a special grant of Rs 70 lakh has been sanctioned by the state government for …
Under the ambitious slum rehabilitation scheme of the state government, 43,000 slum dwellers will be handed over flats within the next four years in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Allegations of corruption and mismanagement have been raised against the slum rehabilitation authority (SRA), mainly regarding the delay in handing over the flats. …
BHUBANESWAR: With a rise in the number of slum-dwellers, the State Government is gearing up to prepare a new project to rehabilitate them in a proper manner. The project, which will focus on improving the livelihood of the slum-dwellers, is an extension of the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) which was …
Ranchi, April 28: The committee formed by the government to suggest a slum policy for Jharkhand has recommended rehabilitation of only BPL individuals among those displaced by the statewide anti-encroachment drive, signalling no reprieve for the other sections. The three-member panel, headed by development commissioner Debashish Gupta and including revenue …
The allocation of the 16,000 flats constructed for slum dwellers under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission would begin from June, Delhi Urban Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said on Wednesday following a visit to a camp organised in this connection at Raja Garden. Mr. Chauhan said after verification …
Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop. Their existence puts at risk not only these economies but also poor people occupying vulnerable areas that climate change and natural disasters will …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has received Rs.200 crore for providing civic amenities in the slum colonies in 55 urban areas of the State under the Integrated Housing for Slum Development Programme and spent Rs.125 crore of the amount on various construction and development works. State Principal Urban Development Secretary G. …
The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry has said 25 states and Union Territories covered under the Basic Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme have utilised less than 50 per cent of funds allocated to them. In her reply to Parliament, housing minister Kumari Selja on Tuesday said the …
Pimpri-Chinchwad mayor Yogesh Behl on Tuesday ordered a probe into the alleged irregularities and corruption in implementing the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme. The move comes after a 65-year-old slum-dweller, Dastagir Manjush Shaikh, committed suicide in Vetalnagar, Chinchwad, on Monday after he was pronounced ineligible to get a house under …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government is now working on a time-bound plan to provide better civic amenities in the slum clusters, Delhi Urban Development Minister A. K. Walia said on Thursday while taking a round of the slums in Gandhi Basti near Okhla Subzi Mandi and Srinivaspuri in South Delhi. …
MUMBAI: In a landmark ruling that will impact the way slum redevelopment schemes are implemented in the city, the Bombay high court has held that it was not open for slumdwellers' proposed cooperative societies can not enter into agreements with developers according their whims and fancies. The high court did …
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government used a little-known rule in the Slum Act to hand over almost 500 acres of slum pockets in Mumbai to six developers on a first-come-first-served basis between 2008 and 2010. Property experts said the plots have a development potential of about Rs 50,000 crore.
Bhopal: In order to ensure planned development of cities, city development plans for all cities will be ready by 2013. Fire Brigade facility will be available with all urban bodies. This was informed during review meeting on welfare of urban poor and planned development of urban bodies chaired by the …
