Slums
Union urban development minister Kamal Nath evoked a sense of urgency concerning the complete process of review of the city’s master plan by insisting that vertical development is the only way to go and the planning concerning this should be initiated by the market forces. He also said that if there are no high-rises in [...] Continue Reading »
In the light of repeated complaints regarding poor drinking facilities and water supply in the rehabilitation settlements built in Chennai, the Chennai Corporation has asked the slum clearance board to provide basic amenities in the housing board quarters for the poor population. Earlier the corporation instructed all the 200 ward councillors in the city to [...] Continue Reading »
Ajay Piramal-backed Indiareit Fund Advisors Pvt. Ltd has raised a Rs 250 crore fund that will be invested solely in redevelopment projects of slums, old housing societies and ceased buildings in Mumbai. The real estate fund has planned to raise another Rs 200-250 crore before closing the fund in a couple of months. According to [...] Continue Reading »
Slum redevelopment schemes as well as redevelopment of old ceased-buildings are playing a key role in real estate development projects in Mumbai. The redevelopment projects will be taken on high priority as the availability of unoccupied land is very less in Mumbai. DB Realty, Tata Housing, HDIL, Unitech, Godrej Properties, Kalpataru group, Omkar Realtors, Hiranandanis, [...] Continue Reading »
565 residents of the Hazi Kasam Chawl at Lalbaug have moved to their new homes under the ambitious Cluster Redevelopment Scheme by the state government. The redevelopment project was completed by the Nish Developers and they are the first to secure permission to redevelop their seven acre property under the cluster scheme. A green building [...] Continue Reading »
The state government of Maharashtra has ordered to audit the 1.27 lakhs constructions developed under the Slum rehabilitation scheme by the private developers. The entire constructions were made during last 15 years. The government took the decision as constant complaints are rising from the slums residents. In the recent CAG report the poor quality of [...] Continue Reading »
In a press release by the Government of India, The Ministry for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation department reported that to create a slum free India, Rajiv Awas Yojana has been launched. The housing scheme will provide financial assistance to States that are willing to assign property rights to slum dwellers and to provide basic [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra government has planned to initiate Urban Malnutrition Mission from next month. As the non governmental organizations have pointed out the fact that adequate health service is not available in the apartments in urban Maharashtra, the government has decided to promote the health service at the places. The infant mortality rate has been recorded [...] Continue Reading »
The Kolkata Municipal Development Authority has demolished the slums in Nonadanga on March 30th. But 130 families had refused to give up and they started living under the open sky. To protest against the demolish of the slum, activists went for a hunger strike. After a 14 days strike, the activists achieved the reconstruction assurance [...] Continue Reading »
Jubilee Hills that was before is not the same now. The posh locality that it was, which housed most of the buildings, shopping malls and plush houses in Hyderabad, now consists of most of the slum areas. 80% of its residents live in various slum areas in this locality. This is because, despite of being [...] Continue Reading »
