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 Delhi government is looking forward to table two Legislative bills in the upcoming Budget Session of the state Assembly next month. The city government has sent the "Delhi Urban Shelter Bill, 2010" to the Centre for approval, after incorporat- ing suggestions of the Central government, which seeks to establish …
New Delhi: Coming to the rescue of slum dwellers, the Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the government and civic agencies to rehabilitate slum-dwellers even if they were encroaching on public land.
Mumbai: Kamaraj Nagar, popularly known as mini-Dharavi, is set to become one of the biggest redevelopment projects in the city. The ownership of the 46-acre slum abutting the Eastern Express Highway in Ghatkopar (east) has changed hands and now lies with Champalal Vardhan of the Neelam Group. Kamaraj Nagar marks …
Mumbai The Committee of Secretaries discussing the Rs 15,000-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project on Wednesday decided to appoint a subcommittee that will submit a report within 15 days on how to take forward the project that has been caught in a series of tangles. It will include the principal secretaries of …
5-Yr Target Set To Provide Housing To Slumdwellers Under Rajiv Awas Yojana Mahendra Kumar Singh | TNN New Delhi: Moving on its ambitious target to make India slum free over the next five years, UPA government is finalising guidelines which hugely bank on substantial participation of private players under the …
The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram are fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue. In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas. They are officially called
The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry is facing teething problems trying to formulate the implementation and financing pattern of the UPA government
Raghavendra Kamath / Mumbai December 10, 2009, 0:57 IST Ramjibhai Pitambar Tak, 62, makes earthen pots for a living. He has been making them for years now in Kumbharwada, an obscure, smoke-filled locality in the 535-acre Dharavi, Asia
MUMBAI: After having failedmiserably to implement the slum rehabilitation scheme, the state government is planning a scheme to make Maharashtra slum-free. The programme is being drafted to commemorate the state's golden jubilee. The Centre has already announced a slum-free programme for the country. Chief minister Ashok Chavan reviewed various housing …
In Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, the tsunami disaster of 2004 forced new ways of working on both organizations of the urban poor and local authorities. Building on this experience, an emerging federation of the urban poor (built on community savings groups) has been collaborating with local authorities to secure land and …
This paper describes the nationwide “slum” upgrading (Baan Mankong) programme in Thailand, which supports community organizations to find their own solutions to getting land for housing. Between 2003 and 2008, the programme supported 512 upgrading initiatives involving 1,010 communities. Community organizations form their own savings groups and draw on soft …
This paper describes two large-scale upgrading programmes in Argentina that sought to transfer land tenure to the inhabitants of informal settlements as part of a larger process that provided good quality infrastructure and services and other measures to strengthen their social inclusion in the wider city. In doing this, they …
Following the Pol Pot era in Cambodia, the high levels of poverty, rapid urban growth and low level of community organization were exacerbated by an absence of government support for the poor. The Urban Poor Development Fund (UPDF) was established in 1998 to provide support to a growing number of …
This paper describes the changes in official policy on riverside development in Surabaya, negotiated by the residents of low-income riverside settlements through their organization, Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya (PWS). They shifted the official policy from relocation to redevelopment by organizing the riverside communities and by developing their own proposals to …
Mumbai: The state cabinet's decision to extend the cut-off date of the slums to January 1, 2000 from the earlier date of January 1, 1995 will benefit more than 20 lakh people in nearly five lakh slums across the city. The decision, taken on Wednesday comes only with a rider …
Mumbai Owners of private land pockets in Dharavi that have so far been kept out of the purview of the Rs 15,000 crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), can now avail of higher vertical limit in case they decide to be part of the project. A month before the financial bids …
