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 …
Rs 1.5 lakh Central assistance to be given to each family. Conditional aid Assistance is, however, conditional upon the State governments concerned assigning property rights to slum-dwellers. Harish Damodaran, New Delhi, June 23 Barely a fortnight after the President
MUMBAI: Ignoring their own economic survey which said that outsiders were a burden on the infrastructure, the Congress-led Democratic Front government is all set to extend the cut-off date for slum rehabilitation from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000. This will be the third extension of the deadline, first …
Mumbai Just when it appeared that the long-delayed Dharavi Redevelopment Project was on track, it has hit another obstacle, in the form of a strongly-worded letter from a government-appointed committee of experts to the government, recommending that the project management consultant, Mukesh Mehta, be immediately removed. Mehta, known to have …
Mumbai A bold architectural design is now ready for a new Dharavi, complete with pedestrian-only roads, elevated walk-ways with green zones and a huge plaza housing residential and commercial units as well as schools and community spaces. The masterplan will serve as guidelines for the realty companies in the Rs …
Mamata Banerjee is a cult figure." This is how a Iwl resident of her constituency describes her. "She is I sure to crush her opponent, who is no match for her," he adds. This comment comes from a member of the upper middle class, the self-same group that analysts predict …
Housing finance options for low-salary earners and the self-employed poor in India are severely limited and have significantly affected their housing conditions. A recent session of the governing council of UN-HABITAT focussed on this theme and emphasised the need to expand financing options. The Eleventh Five Year plan estimates the …
CONGRESS MP Eknath Gaik-wad, whose constituency includes Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, has assured that the redevelopment model of the sprawling slum will be replicated in other slums of the constituency. After delimitation, his Mumbai South-Central constituency includes slum-dominated parts of Mankhurd, Trombay, Sion and Kurla. "People already have high expectations …
Far from the debris of the downturn, a very different real estate market is taking shape. Developers have begun seeing business sense in building cheaper and affordable homes for people with small incomes. With the bubble of rising real estate prices having burst, even some of the bigger companies are …
Raghavendra Kamath / Mumbai March 10, 2009, 0:39 IST Developer to bid for work from those who win the final contract. Mumbai-based property developer Housing Development Infrastructure (HDIL) says it has pulled out of the Rs 15,000 crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) because the latter doesn
New Delhi: It has been over three decades since 49-yearold Jiyo Devi first came to live in Navjivan camp, a slum in Govindpuri. A lot has changed since then. Everyone in her locality has a ration card. Children living in the area go to school, and women work to support …
COIMBATORE: Kurichi Municipality has drawn up a slum development programme that will be funded partly by the Central and State Governments under the Basic Services for the Urban Poor. The Coimbatore Corporation is already implementing one under this component, as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Though …
Mumbai: In a bid to eradicate slums from the city, the state Government has set up a core committee to prepare a concept plan for providing cheap housing in the region. The concept plan, a longterm initiative, will aim at building more affordable houses and houses on moderate rents. According …
Mumbai: Although the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has promised 24X7 water supply to the city in its annual budget, the fact is that Mumbai will have to wait for almost two years, till 2011, for that to happen. At present, the BMC simply cannot provide more water to the city, …
So far the slum dwellers had been fulfilling their dream of having a roof over their heads by propping up corrugated sheets on semi-pucca structure. And sometimes even polythene sheets would do. But if the Delhi Development Authority
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The new sewerage treatment plant to be set up by the City Corporation at Muttathara for 107 MLD activated sludge process will be inaugurated by Chief Minister V.S.Achuthanandan on March 2. It will be one of the five projects by the Corporation that will see an official beginning within …
Over 500 slum-dwellers have become proud owners of flats in the upmarket Dadar in Central Mumbai. Mumbai : Over 500 slum-dwellers on Sunday became the proud owner of flats in the upmarket Dadar in Central Mumbai. Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi handed over the keys to the slum-dwellers of …
New Delhi: First of slum rehab plans underway The foundation ceremony for the in-situ rehabilitation of the Kathputli colony in Shadipur Depot on Sunday saw Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken, and local MLA Ramakant Goswami, among other dignitaries in attendance. The colony, spanning 5.22 hectares, is …
