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 …
The increasing rate of slum growth in the Global South is the direct result of an international development paradigm that fails to prioritise the basic needs of the poor. A world without urban poverty cannot be realised without a redistribution of power and resources on the national and global level, …
This is the fourth in a series of papers chronicling the negotiations over plans to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai’s vast informal settlement. It also describes current plans to redevelop land beside Mumbai’s international airport, where more than 85,000 households live on a 110-hectare (275 acres) site. In both these settlements, each …
This publication presents a strong argument for innovating urban planning to address the contemporary challenges of rapid urbanization and poverty. It illustrates how UN-HABITAT has worked in a variety of contexts to apply urban planning and design to contribute to sustainable human settlements development, slum prevention, post-disaster and post-conflict reconstruction, …
Jamshedpur, July 27: It is a Rs 15.01-crore promise of better life for some 6,000 underprivileged denizens of the steel city. The Union urban development ministry today sanctioned the funds for development of four slums under the Adityapur Municipal Council and one under Jugsalai Municipality. Civic officials said the money …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as eviction drive in the city assumes high pitch, for around 11 slums the future harbours good news. They would be relocated at Tangarahuda near Satichoura and settled on an expanse of over 14 acres laced with basic amenities. The process of transfer of the land from the …
Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit, enterprise, ambitions and hope? Current plans are focused on profit-making, by developers and government, with the …
Mumbai After being relegated to cold storage for some time, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project will explore yet another model. In a first, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has proposed that it would like to develop one of the five sectors in the 2-sq-km slum sprawl on its …
The residents of Golibar slum colony near Mumbai airport have sniffed a scam in the state housing agency’s rehabilitation plan for them. They found the land where they are being resettled is encroached land belonging to the Air Force. About 550 families have already been shifted there in six housing …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday asked officials of the Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other stakeholders to conduct an in-depth study on slum rehabilitation. A team comprising members of these agencies will also go to Mumbai to study Bombay Municipal Corporation efforts to rehabilitate Dharavi, Asia
Yamunanagar: The Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme, a Central government scheme, has brought a new hope for slum dwellers living in unhygienic conditions and deprived of basic amenities in the district. The Centre has sanctioned a sum of Rs 34.69 crore under the programme for the construction of the …
The historic town of Nanded will have no slums by next year and by 2012 it will boast of modern infrastructure too. At present, around 30 per cent of its population lives in slums. Nanded is home to Gurdwara Sachkhand Darbar Shri Hazoor Sahib, one of the five most revered …
This paper describes an enumeration of all households living in informal settlements in Kisumu, Kenya, implemented by their inhabitants and supported by savings groups, the Kenyan Homeless People
Pune Two previous plans yet to take off The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that has not met with success in implementing slum rehabilitation projects under the Maharashtra Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), is making a pitch for more funds, this time from …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union government has set up an independent eight-member expert committee to review the draft guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a housing scheme for slum dwellers and urban poor. Chaired by Deepak Parekh, the committee will give its comments on the scheme. This was announced …
The government has decided to refer the draft guidelines of its ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a scheme to make India slum-free, to an independent panel. The eight-member expert panel, headed by HDFC Bank chairman Deepak Parekh, has been asked to give its recommendations within a month from its first …
Delhi Government has prepared a list of 44 JJ clusters which would be relocated during Commonwealth Games 2010 under its ambitious Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna. The locations of the slum clusters are bound to cause political tremor as it would the voters' politics of several constituencies. In the first phase …
Mumbai: To research on and influence the processes of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has now set up an Urban India Reform Facility, or UIRF. Otherfocus areas will include schemes like Integrated Housing and …
Although informal settlements are proliferating in cities across low- and middle-income nations, there is 40 years of experience to draw on in upgrading these
