AAP govt pushes civic works in Delhi slums as policy remains stuck in red tape
8 years, 1 month ago

AAP govt pushes civic works in Delhi slums as policy remains stuck in red tape

Hindustan Times  

Two years after the Aam Adami Party government came to power, its promise of ‘Jahan Jhuggi, Wahan Makaan’ has failed to gain momentum. Approved by the Delhi cabinet in July 2016, the rehabilitation policy was sent back by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal early this month with some observations. The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board has now responded to L-G’s comment and as the files run to and fro a final notification of the policy is yet to come. A Delhi government spokesperson, however, said the policy takes care to rehabilitate slum dwellers close to their homes.

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Life in Delhi's slums: Struggle for basic necessities
2 months, 1 week ago

Life in Delhi's slums: Struggle for basic necessities

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, In the bustling national capital, the slum dwellers live with enduring hope, waiting for a day when clean streets, safe drinking water, proper sanitation and permanent housing will no longer feel like distant dreams. Life in Delhi's slums: Struggle for basic necessities The slum dwellers are hopeful that their issues would be adequately addressed in the upcoming Delhi …

Delhi poll narrative not roti, kapdaa but makaan
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Delhi poll narrative not roti, kapdaa but makaan

The Hindu  

Slum dwellers’ rehabilitation has become one of the focal points of the Delhi Assembly poll. At an event, Mr. Modi said, “The world knows that Modi never built a house for himself, but in the last 10 years, we’ve built over four crore homes for the poor.” Addressing a gathering of hundreds of slum dwellers in Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on …

AAP, BJP intensify campaign to win votes of slum residents
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AAP, BJP intensify campaign to win votes of slum residents

Hindustan Times  

With three weeks to go for the Delhi assembly elections, the battle to win over residents of slums — a critical vote bank in the Capital — intensified on Sunday, with both the Aam Aadmi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party attempting to woo over electors. Kejriwal: BJP plans to demolish slums Speaking at a slum cluster at Shakur Basti in …

Delhi Slum Dwellers to Get House: Shah
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhi Slum Dwellers to Get House: Shah

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: In a bold political statement, Union home minister Amit Shah announced on Sunday that every slum dweller in Delhi will receive a pucca house, further pledging that no welfare schemes for the poor will be discontinued if the Bharatiya Janata Party forms the government. He launched a scathing attack on AAP, labelling it an "Aapda" for Delhi, and …

Slum rehabilitation project in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar: ‘We are finally homeowners’
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Slum rehabilitation project in Delhi’s Ashok Vihar: ‘We are finally homeowners’

Hindustan Times  

For around 1,400 families living in the slum clusters of northwest Delhi’s Jailorwala Bagh, Friday marked a transformative moment. They were handed the keys to new flats under the Swabhiman Apartments in-situ slum rehabilitation project in Ashok Vihar – ending decades of living in makeshift shelters with little hope of proper housing. This project is the second successful in-situ rehabilitation …

Changes in Delhi slum redevelopment scheme, developers, residents to benefit
4 months ago

Changes in Delhi slum redevelopment scheme, developers, residents to benefit

India Today  

The Delhi Development Authority has taken a significant step towards enhancing the viability of 'original rehabilitation' projects, aimed at providing essential housing solutions for slum dwellers, an official statement said on Thursday. Governor, under the "Jahan Jhuggi Wahin Makaan" scheme, primarily focus on making these projects more attractive for developers, ensuring seamless integration of slum dwellers into the city’s formal …

DDA approves major overhaul in slum redevelopment policy
4 months ago

DDA approves major overhaul in slum redevelopment policy

The Hindu  

The Delhi Development Authority on Thursday approved a slew of major changes in its policy for the redevelopment of slums under its ‘Jahan Jhuggi, Wahin Makan’ scheme, giving a boost to the in-situ rehabilitation of their residents. The move came a day after Mr. Saxena ordered the DDA to dispose of within a month pending applications for the registration of …

Delhi: LG relaxes slum rehab policy
4 months ago

Delhi: LG relaxes slum rehab policy

Hindustan Times  

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena, chairing a meeting of the Delhi Development Authority on Thursday, approved several changes to the in-situ rehabilitation scheme for slum dwellers, officials familiar with the developments said. These changes include density relaxation, revised apportionment of land area for remunerative and non-remunerative components and floor area ratio and clubbing of clusters for redevelopment spread across a radius …

Homeless in Delhi night shelters will get 3 meals daily: Govt
1 year ago

Homeless in Delhi night shelters will get 3 meals daily: Govt

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Friday decided to provide three free meals a day to those staying at night shelters in the city, tender for which will be issued to an agency soon. An agency has been tasked with maintaining toilets in slum clusters, the board briefed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Notably, Kejriwal has directed an Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation …

AAP, BJP spar over slum rehabilitation in Delhi
1 year, 1 month ago

AAP, BJP spar over slum rehabilitation in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday alleged that the Centre and its agencies have carried out a series of demolition drives at slum, or JJ, clusters in Delhi over the last year, and that no rehabilitation has been carried out in these cases. Saurabh Bharadwaj The Bharatiya Janata Party hit back, accusing the AAP government in Delhi of not doing …

Delhi govt to facilitate RWA-like bodies for slums
2 years, 8 months ago

Delhi govt to facilitate RWA-like bodies for slums

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Body, the Delhi government’s slum management agency, is planning to facilitate formation of residents bodies in the jhuggi jhopri clusters across the city to coordinate efforts aimed at addressing various civic problems such as cleaning of community toilet, cleaning of drains, sweeping of streets and management of community water points, DUSIB officials aware …

Railways Filed Affidavit in SC That Slums Along Delhi's Rail Tracks Hindering Centre's Clean Drive: AAP
4 years, 6 months ago

Railways Filed Affidavit in SC That Slums Along Delhi's Rail Tracks Hindering Centre's Clean Drive: AAP

News 18  

The AAP on Friday claimed that the railways filed an affidavit in Supreme Court that 48,000 jhuggis’ adjacent to rail tracks were hindering the cleanliness process by the Centre, following which the apex court ordered their demolition. Calling the affidavit “irrefutable evidence” that showed the real wish of the BJP-led Centre, AAP spokesperson Raghav Chadha said it exposed the mentality …

Opinion | India’s failure to address its urban slum problem
6 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | India’s failure to address its urban slum problem

Live Mint  

Dharavi is shorthand for the challenges and complexities of Indian urbanization. Various combinations of rent control, opaque and distorted land markets, stifling regulation and laughably low floor space indexes have resulted in a severe lack of affordable housing in India’s premier cities. Failure to take slum dweller representatives on board meant that the informal economic networks underlying Dharavi’s economy would …

Three Law Students Fight For Toilet Facilities For Slum Dwellers, Delhi HC Issues Notice To Govt [Read Petition]
6 years, 8 months ago

Three Law Students Fight For Toilet Facilities For Slum Dwellers, Delhi HC Issues Notice To Govt [Read Petition]

Live Law  

Moved by the pitiable condition of residents of a slum cluster in the heart of Delhi who are forced to defecate in open for want of a toilet and live in pathetic conditions, three law students have moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the government to provide them toilet and healthcare facilities and Anganwadi for women and children …

Three Law Students Fight For Toilet Facilities For Slum Dwellers, Delhi HC Issues Notice To Govt [Read Petition]
6 years, 8 months ago

Three Law Students Fight For Toilet Facilities For Slum Dwellers, Delhi HC Issues Notice To Govt [Read Petition]

Live Law  

Moved by the pitiable condition of residents of a slum cluster in the heart of Delhi who are forced to defecate in open for want of a toilet and live in pathetic conditions, three law students have moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the government to provide them toilet and healthcare facilities and Anganwadi for women and children …

Mumbai civic body’s plan to build 22,770 community toilets gets cold response from bidders
6 years, 11 months ago

Mumbai civic body’s plan to build 22,770 community toilets gets cold response from bidders

Hindustan Times  

The civic body's plan to build over 22,000 community toilets is facing a delay due to lack of bidders. Of the 22,770 toilets, BMC plans to demolish over 1,600 old toilet seats and rebuild one or two-storey community toilet blocks in their place. Multiple civic officials confirmed that since BMC floated tenders to invite bids to construct new and improved …

No water, electricity in Delhi community toilets; Kejriwal seeks report
7 years, 1 month ago

No water, electricity in Delhi community toilets; Kejriwal seeks report

The Quint  

New Delhi, Feb 10 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday asked for within a week a report on shortage of water and electricity in citys community toilets, and directed officials to take remedial measures.The Chief Minister asked Shurbir Singh, CEO of Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, to submit the report after complaints from MLAs and others. He directed t …

Centre tells Arvind Kejriwal to step up work under 'Clean India'; claims Delhi govt built only 328 public toilets
7 years, 3 months ago

Centre tells Arvind Kejriwal to step up work under 'Clean India'; claims Delhi govt built only 328 public toilets

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The Centre has raised with the Delhi government, the issue of “under-utilisation” of funds under ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ and asked it to step up expenditure under the scheme to improve services, sources said. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has recently written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, stating that Rs 104.75 crore were released by …

Arvind Kejriwal: Delhi slums to be open-defecation free by March, pucca houses by 2022
7 years, 9 months ago

Arvind Kejriwal: Delhi slums to be open-defecation free by March, pucca houses by 2022

Firstpost  

Arvind Kejriwal reaffirmed that all slum clusters in the city will be made open defecation-free by March next year, promised to provide pucca houses by 2022 New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday reaffirmed that all slum clusters in the city will be made open defecation-free by March next year, even as his cabinet minister Satyendar Jain promised …

Government hiring young engineers for building toilets in Delhi
8 years, 7 months ago

Government hiring young engineers for building toilets in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party government has decided to hire young engineers to help them in implementing its ambitious plan to make the Capital open defecation free. HT Image The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, the agency that implements development programmes at slums, plans to construct two lakh public toilets across Delhi in the next five years. Sources said …

Delhi set for a 'makeover' as Naidu rolls out action plan
10 years, 6 months ago

Delhi set for a 'makeover' as Naidu rolls out action plan

India TV News  

New Delhi: Aiming to give Delhi a facelift, Urban Development Ministry today firmed up an action plan to ensure a “clean and green” capital city, with major focus on sanitation, waste disposal and upkeep of public places, to improve the quality of life of its residents. The short term measures also include cleanliness drive in bus terminals, hospitals and educational …

“Delhi Govt. displacing slum dwellers mindlessly”
12 years, 4 months ago

“Delhi Govt. displacing slum dwellers mindlessly”

The Hindu  

Holding the Delhi Government squarely responsible for following a policy of large-scale displacement of slum dwellers without adequate norms for providing rehabilitation to all of them, activists working for the rights of slum dwellers have demanded that the cut-off date of March 31, 2007, be followed strictly to ensure that no one is discriminated against. Averring that the goal of …

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