Affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Sisir Kumar Panda Vs Union of India & Others dated 20/05/2025. The issue pertained to the removal of illegal construction/obstruction caused by the state authorities as well as the private persons in the ecological sensitive zone …
A discourse analysis of court documents in slum-related cases from the past 25 years leads to the conclusion that the basic statement that "slums are illegal' is a very recent juridical discourse and the rise of court orders to demolish slums is due to reinterpretation of nuisance law. The "new …
Crawling ahead at snail's pace, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Wednesday surveyed and marked another stretch of slums for demolition near the Mithi river, as part of the Mithi clean-up drive. MMRDA representative D Kawathkar said, "In November 2007, we have started the Phase II work on …
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
More than 300 destitute people of South Africa's Johannesburg city are currently facing eviction from their squats. The move is part of Johannesburg's inner-city regeneration programme ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Two stadiums are being readied for the tournament. The process, which has been stalled over the past …
On April17, 2006, the Munici-pal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (mcgm) moved into Mahakali Nagar, near Powai, with a police contingent and razed 276 slum units that were
JUST 6 months ago, Vijay Vihar was a dirty blob on the capital's ever-expanding map. The 5.67 ha of land on the outskirts of north Delhi houses a dusty, unauthorised colony of 40,000 people. But today the residents have at one shot challenged the government and the vested interests in …
OVER 5,000 families from the eastern suburbs of Mumbai are on dharna since mid-May after 400 hutments in Annabhau Sathenagar Basti near Mankhurd were razed on orders of the additional collector. The residents resisted the demolition. One of them, Shivaji Bhutekar, died of electrocution in the melee. Angry residents stormed …
