Slum dwellers
Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken has shown pity over houses of slum dwellers in Mumbai. He has recently written to the Maharashtra Chief Minister asking him to stop the demolition work on the properties of slum dwellers. This had been done after the recent delegation of the National Alliance of [...] Continue Reading »
The Subramanyapura lake in Uttarahalli, which was left unnoticed for nearly five years, will now get a new life and the recovery work will be done by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in association with other civic agencies and government bodies. Higher official of BBMP visited that lake and found that the lake was illegally [...] Continue Reading »
Can the civic body make a new development plan without asking the slum dwellers? Though Mumbai city comprises of 70 percent slum dwellers, the civic body has established its new plan without consulting them. Till now the development plan has not done anything for the urban poor. The development plan has not made any housing [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Juhu residents allege that the airport authorities are cutting lot of trees without taking approval from the respected authorities. However the authorities denied the allegations saying that they have cut only the unwanted bushes and shrubs. According to them, they have cleaned the bushes so that the slum dwellers do not indulge themselves in [...] Continue Reading »
Statistics show that Mumbai-based real estate firm Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd’s (HDIL) gross debt has come down by 5 per cent in the first six months of the current calendar year and stood at Rs 4,040 crore as on June 30. However, HDIL reported 44 per cent fall in net profit. Profit stands at [...] Continue Reading »
Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), Nagpur, is forced to scrap many schemes designed to offer for slum-dwellers. The reason being lack of demand as most of the target population has not shown any interest so far in most of the projects. The major problem seems to be the size of flats being built under SRA, which [...] Continue Reading »
T Venkataraju, engineer-inchief of BSWWB said that water disruption of Magadi Road and nearby areas was due to illegal connections by slum-dwellers. He said because of this, residents with metered connections have gone through suffering. The gang who came out to protest is mostly included of customers without meters. Water supply was disrupted due to [...] Continue Reading »
The defence land in Bangalore located in the premises of Domlur Layout is crying for a change! One piece of defence land has turned into a dumping yard. The plot no more remains as defence land but a garbage dump yard. When asked about the maintenance at this land, the defence officials say they are [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of apartments in Delhi are complaining of illegal encroachments in the apartment premises. Similar case was brought into notice of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) with the increasing encroachments on the vacant plot behind Express Apartments located at Vaishali Sector 5. According to the residents living in Sector 5, due to MCD’s negligence [...] Continue Reading »
The slum dwellers in Karnataka have a reason to be happy! The state cabinet have agreed to give land deed titles to the slum dwellers. The motive is to make it a slum free state and to provide basic level infrastructure to the residents. There are in total of 40 lakh population in slum areas [...] Continue Reading »
