While analyzing the data and information on socio-economic conditions of slum dwellers in selected localities of Delhi NCR, the principal objective of the proposed study is to prepare a framework of social cost benefit analysis to evaluate alternative strategies aimed at developing the India’s capital in to a World Class Model City free of slums
AIZAWL, Sep 18 (IANS): The central government has sanctioned 134 projects worth Rs.2,610 crore for poverty alleviation, development of infrastructure and providing basic services in the urban areas
Urban Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan has told the Delhi Assembly that the Government was ready with 15,000 flats for the rehabilitation of slum dwellers.
The Asian Coalition for Community Action Program (ACCA) is a three-year program of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), and the program’s target is to support a process of city-wide upgrading in 150 Asian cities.
Under the ambitious slum rehabilitation scheme of the state government, 43,000 slum dwellers will be handed over flats within the next four years in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Allegations of corruption and mismanagement have been raised against the slum rehabilitation authority (SRA), mainly regarding the delay in handing over the flats.
BHUBANESWAR: With a rise in the number of slum-dwellers, the State Government is gearing up to prepare a new project to rehabilitate them in a proper manner. The project, which will focus on improving the livelihood of the slum-dwellers, is an extension of the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) which was implemented in February this year.
Ranchi, April 28: The committee formed by the government to suggest a slum policy for Jharkhand has recommended rehabilitation of only BPL individuals among those displaced by the statewide anti-encroachment drive, signalling no reprieve for the other sections.
The three-member panel, headed by development commissioner Debashish Gupta and including revenue secretary N.N.
The allocation of the 16,000 flats constructed for slum dwellers under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission would begin from June, Delhi Urban Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said on Wednesday following a visit to a camp organised in this connection at Raja Garden.
