Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop.
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has received Rs.200 crore for providing civic amenities in the slum colonies in 55 urban areas of the State under the Integrated Housing for Slum Development Programme and spent Rs.125 crore of the amount on various construction and development works.
The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry has said 25 states and Union Territories covered under the Basic Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme have utilised less than 50 per cent of funds allocated to them.
Pimpri-Chinchwad mayor Yogesh Behl on Tuesday ordered a probe into the alleged irregularities and corruption in implementing the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme.
The move comes after a 65-year-old slum-dweller, Dastagir Manjush Shaikh, committed suicide in Vetalnagar, Chinchwad, on Monday after he was pronounced ineligible to get a house under the SRA scheme of the Pimpri Chinchwad M
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government is now working on a time-bound plan to provide better civic amenities in the slum clusters, Delhi Urban Development Minister A. K. Walia said on Thursday while taking a round of the slums in Gandhi Basti near Okhla Subzi Mandi and Srinivaspuri in South Delhi.
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government used a little-known rule in the Slum Act to hand over almost 500 acres of slum pockets in Mumbai to six developers on a first-come-first-served basis between 2008 and 2010.
Bhopal: In order to ensure planned development of cities, city development plans for all cities will be ready by 2013. Fire Brigade facility will be available with all urban bodies.
The increasing rate of slum growth in the Global South is the direct result of an international development paradigm that fails to prioritise the basic needs of the poor. A world without urban poverty cannot be realised without a redistribution of power and resources on the national and global level, argues a report by Share The World
