Urban Housing

New policy paradigms and actual practices in slum housing

Recent reform programmes for achieving "slum-free" cities, like the Basic Services for the Urban Poor, signal a new integrated approach to slum redevelopment that combines housing, infrastructure and land titling. The new policy paradigm speaks the language of inclusiveness and efficiency, but its outcome has been far from ideal.

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Author(s): Lalitha Kamath

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

47

Issue:

47-48

pp:

76-86

Tags:

Slums, Urban Habitat, Bangalore (T), Slum Upgrading, Poverty, Governance, Subsidies, Urban Housing, Private Sector, Public Sector, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)

Habitat And Urbanisation

Sustainable housing: balancing environment with urban growth in India

By 2030, according to the projections of the United Nations (UN) Population Division, each of the major regions of the developing world will hold more urban than rural dwellers; by 2050 fully two-thirds of their inhabitants are likely to live in urban areas.

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Author(s): Vijai Shanker Singh, Deep Narayan Pandey

Source: Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board

Tags:

Urban Housing, India, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Environment

Habitat And Urbanisation

JNNURM poorly implemented: CAG

Thousands of unfinished projects, diversion of funds to the tune of .

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Corruption, Urban Housing, Infrastructure Development

Habitat And Urbanisation

JNNURM a big let-down, says CAG

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission's seven-year voyage seems to have yielded little, at a great cost.

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Corruption, Finance, Infrastructure Development, Urban Housing

Poverty

Govt’s cold attitude fatal for city’s homeless

Every winter, the city wakes up to the untold miseries of homeless people. Many of them die on the streets braving the chill.

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Urban Housing, Poverty, Delhi

Habitat And Urbanisation

South Delhi garbage dump is home to a family of 6

The next time you apologize for your home looking like a dump, spare a thought for Shobhraj Kumar.

Publication Date:

01/12/2012

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Urban Habitat, Urban Housing, Poverty, Waste Disposal, Delhi, Solid Waste

Habitat And Urbanisation

UPA’s flagship scheme in CAG net

Houses built for the poor allotted to ineligible beneficiaries, diversion of over Rs 100 crore to unapproved ventures, and a huge lapse in completion of projects mark UPA’s flagship programme for u

Publication Date:

30/11/2012

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), India, Urban Housing, Urban Development, Solid Waste, Waste Management, Water Supply

Habitat And Urbanisation

Most Centre-funded urban plans in Delhi delayed: CAG

The CAG's performance audit of JNNURM was tabled in Parliament on Thursday.

Publication Date:

30/11/2012

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), India, Urban Development, Urban Housing

Habitat And Urbanisation

Performance audit on Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission

This CAG audit report on implementation of JNNURM, the Centre's flagship urban infrastructure development scheme observed that a crucial objective of bringing about reforms in the governance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) could not be achieved through the scheme.

Publication Date:

29/11/2012

Source: Comptroller and Auditor General of India

Tags:

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), India, Urban Development, Urban Housing, Infrastructure Development, Urban Finance

Habitat And Urbanisation