Yamunanagar: The Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme, a Central government scheme, has brought a new hope for slum dwellers living in unhygienic conditions and deprived of basic amenities in the district.
The historic town of Nanded will have no slums by next year and by 2012 it will boast of modern infrastructure too. At present, around 30 per cent of its population lives in slums.
This paper describes an enumeration of all households living in informal settlements in Kisumu, Kenya, implemented by their inhabitants and supported by savings groups, the Kenyan Homeless People
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that has not met with success in implementing slum rehabilitation projects under the Maharashtra Slum Rehabilitation
NEW DELHI: The Union government has set up an independent eight-member expert committee to review the draft guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a housing scheme for slum dwellers and urban poor.
The government has decided to refer the draft guidelines of its ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a scheme to make India slum-free, to an independent panel. The eight-member expert panel, headed by HDFC Bank chairman Deepak Parekh, has been asked to give its recommendations within a month from its first meeting.
Delhi Government has prepared a list of 44 JJ clusters which would be relocated during Commonwealth Games 2010 under its ambitious Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna. The locations of the slum clusters are bound to cause political tremor as it would the voters' politics of several constituencies.
Mumbai: To research on and influence the processes of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has now set up an Urban India Reform Facility, or UIRF.
Although informal settlements are proliferating in cities across low- and middle-income nations, there is 40 years of experience to draw on in upgrading these
