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Rehabilitation norms liberalised for slum dwellers in Capital [1]

For millions of slum dweller in Delhi, there is finally some reassuring news in the form of amendments brought in by the Delhi Government in its slum policy.

As per a notification issued on February 25, this year, lakhs of slum dwellers would be benefited by the liberalised norms on their identification and entitlement for rehabilitation. Stating that it was the pressure mounted by the slum dwellers themselves which made the Delhi Government change several conditions for eligibility for rehabilitation, Ramendra Kumar, secretary general of Delhi Shramik Sangathan, said the major amendments include the change in the eligibility condition.

Publication Date: 
12/03/2013
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
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Delhi [4], Slums [5], Rehabilitation [6], Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) [7], Housing [8], Poverty [9], Habitat And Urbanisation [10]
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