An Act to provide for facilitation of inclusive growth and slum-free cities, including basic amenities and affordable housing to the slum-dwellers; for this purpose to lay down general principles
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Maharashtra government to do its bit for the expansion of the existing domestic terminal, while assuring chief minister Ashok Chavan of progress on the Navi Mumbai airport project.
A top Mantralaya official and aviation ministry officials told ET that the prime minister also sought to know the progress on rehabilitation of slums that smother Chhat
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned.
A presentation of an ethnography of the relationship between urban spaces, new cultures of consumption, the state, and the making of middle class identities in India. Firstly, the discussion explores the making of new urban spaces by focusing upon the Akshardham Temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi.
Millennial Delhi is changing rapidly. Between 1990 and 2003, 51,461 houses were demolished in Delhi under "slum clearance" schemes. Between 2004 and 2007 alone, however, at least 45,000 homes were demolished, and since the beginning of 2007, eviction notices have been served on at least three other large settlements.
Mumbai, August 21 The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the high-powered committee, looking into the complaints pertaining to Slum Rehabilitation Authority schemes, to decide on the demolition of buildings in Bandra's Pereirawadi within six weeks, and asked the government to follow its stay order on demolition of structures.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice A P Deshpande directed the panel to hear the case and give an order within six weeks.
The redevelopment and beautification of the capital for the making of a "world-class city' have entailed a heavy cost in terms of slum demolitions. A survey documenting the change of land use that has taken place on the sites of demolished slum clusters highlights the emerging processes and trends. Some of its findings question the stated principle of the Delhi slum policy, namely, the removal and relocation of squatter settlements only when the land is required to implement projects in the "larger public interest'.
