The metropolis of Delhi can only be made free of slums if the city authorities treat their dwellers as integral and useful components of the city, and act accordingly, recommends an official

The transported Department has stopped issuing fitness certificates to retrofitted CNG buses since yesterday. This means that diesel buses which have installed CNG kits will not be allowed to ply in

The budget estimates for the year 2002-03 for the slum and jhuggi wing of the MCD was also tabled before the standing committee of the MCD. The budget proposes to provide housing facilities to

The Delhi Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. Vijai Kapoor, today stressed the need to address the issues relating to poverty in Delhi's new Master Plan and said that the all important issues of employment

The Legislative Assembly today passed the Karnataka Slum Areas (improvement & clearance) and Certain other law (amendment) Bill, 2002 which empowers the government to transfer lands belonging to it

After nearly a year, the Tamil Nadu Government has finally cleared the way for a Rs. 25-lakh Japanese Government project in Kannagi Nagar, the Slum Clearance Board settlement in Oggiyam Thoraipakkam.

The World Bank has agreed to negotiate financing of $450 million road project in Uttar Pradesh. A team of state government officials will visit Washington this month to finalise the deal, said Mr. DS

The Asian Development Bank(ADB) will provide financial assistance of Rs 1,200 crore for integrated urban development projects in six cities of Madhya Pradesh. The assistance will reach the government

The Karnataka government is all set to launch a Rs. 274-crore project to give tenurial rights to slum dwellers in 21 class-one cities and develop infrastructure to provide housing to them. Karnataka

World Vision, a non-governmental Organisation working for the resettlement of slum-dwellers, handed over 221 houses in the Bhalsawa area of North Delhi and Bukara village in Gurgaon today to