The amount is required to reconstruct a total of 11 lakh slum households in the city as per latest Census figureS.

Mumbai will need Rs 55,000 crore if it has to target each and every slum over the next ten years under the central government’s flagship slum-free cities scheme Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), according to estimates drawn up by the state government.

Slum dwellers are hacking trees in the mangroves along the Palm Beach Road, said some residents.

Political parties, which look at slum populations as their prime vote bank, continue to make false promises of regularising lake lands that has been encroached. Musi River is one such area.

Imagine not taking a bath in this hot and sultry summer. But 37% Amdavadis have been doing just that.

Housing Minister M H Ambarish on Wednesday said that the government is upgrading 26 slums in the State at a cost of Rs 1,347 crore under the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY).

Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung has cleared a proposal to set up “pay-and-use” water ATMs in water- starved slums and resettlement colonies of Delhi.

An Indian social enterprise start-up is helping people living in urban slums to use clean energy by changing their kerosene lamps for solar lanterns and wood fires for more efficient cooking stoves