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 …
Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Jan 19: Slum dwellers who have been rehabilitated under various schemes of the civic body should form co-operatives so that they can take over the responsibility of maintaining their flats, mayor Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said this today. He was speaking at a ceremony organised at …
HOUSING DREAMS Mumbai: Will the high court-appointed committee to clear the backlog of Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) cases be of any help? Apparently not, as the panel has not been given legal powers, say experts. They also point out that the committee is no different from the one set up …
The Delhi government has built 9,817 houses for slum dwellers and urban poor below the poverty line under the Rajiv Ratan Aawas Yojna. The dwelling units are now ready for allotment, said Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) managing director Manoj Parida. The Rajiv Ratan Aawas Yojna was …
The State Government has included three slum areas under the basic services to urban poor (BSUP) component of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) during the 2007-08 financial year for construction and upgradation of 1,961 dwelling units. Urban De velopment Minister Kanak Vardhan Singhdeo said in reply to a …
There is an unacceptably weak global policy response to the water and sanitation crisis in the rapidly expanding slum areas of the developing world. Without a serious commitment to redress the low political and financing priority given to sanitation and water in housing and urban development, and slum upgrading, the …
The movement of inhabitants from a squatter settlement to a resettlement colony can be perceived as a rise in the status of slum dwellers. The slum dwellers of the resettlement colonies now have a better housing with security of tenancy. Also, they earn more than before, both in relative and …
Visakhapatnam July 3: The human resources minister of Singapore, Mr Gan Kim Yang, and a team of officials visited city on Thursday. The city mayor, Mr Pulusu Janardhana Rao, called on the minister at a local hotel here and held talks on various schemes and projects taken up by either …
the cost of the Dharavi redevelopment project (drp) has crossed the Rs 13,000 crore mark from Rs 9,200 crore estimated earlier. The escalation means changes in the bidding process and bids that were to be received till April 2008 will extend to June, causing further delay. "The cost has been …
The Urban Improvement Trusts in Rajasthan will speed up the process for regularisation of slums in the cities and residential colonies developed on agricultural land. The move is expected to provide much-awaited relief to the residents of these areas. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, presiding over a meeting of the trusts …
the Bangalore Corporation has decided to give land titles to 36 slums. On February 14, the corporation chairman announced the decision at a meeting with a joint action committee of ngos. The city commissioner asked revenue officers to identify the slums in the corporation area and issue land titles. Several …
The government has chalked out several programmes for the betterment of urban poor, but still a lot needs to be done to uplift their living standards. The government has centered its attention on removing poverty of villagers, marginal and small farmers. Moreover, it has not ignored the urban poor. Central …
The question as to what levels of services ought to be provided and maintained in the urban areas of various sizes, dimensions and economic activities has been debated at various forum. It has been observed that fixing norms and standards for basic urban services is an extremely complex and critical …
Poised on the northern edge of south Mumbai is a piece of real estate developers would love to get their hands on. Rubbing shoulders with upmarket Bandra, Dharavi is known as Asia's largest slum, but it's actually much more than that
the stage is set for protests against the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (drp), which envisages transforming Dharavi into an integrated township without people's consent. On June 18, residents will march to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority's office to voice their protests. Raju Korde, president of Dharavi Bachao Committee is …
gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on March 29, 2007, announced a Rs 13-crore scheme for the state's urban poor. The programme, called Garib Samriddhi Scheme, envisages, among other things, setting up 175,000 private toilets and 5,000 pay-and-use-toilets in slums over the next five years. It also plans to construct 250,000 …
Maharashtra's draft state housing policy (dshp) is ready. Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced it on November 1, 2006. Prepared in a record three-month period by a taskforce headedby the state chief secretary, this is the first-ever housing policy for Maharashtra and is in consonance with the Centre's National Urban Housing …
Titagarh's slum upgrading experience demonstrates that social pressure and lobbying, particularly by women's groups, can be very effective in controlling rents, even when there is no legal contract between tenants and landlords.
dharavi has once again hit the headlines with new developments on the much-touted project that aims to convert Asia's largest slum into a "world-class' locality. The latest on the state government's list is a proposal to amend the clause of the Maharashtra Slum Areas Act, 1971, which stipulates that 60 …
early Tamil Muslim tannery owners, settling on a piece of land by the Mahim river in Mumbai, called it Dharavi. It is Tamil for loose mud. Early January this year, at the Pravasi Diwas at Hyderabad, non-resident Indian businessmen were upbeat over the opportunity in this loose mud. The refashioning …
