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BJP believes in improving, not dismantling slums: Bidhuri
1 week ago

BJP believes in improving, not dismantling slums: Bidhuri

The Hindu  

i The Delhi unit of BJP on Sunday said it believes “in improving, not dismantling,” the jhuggi clusters in the city and would create a separate government department for slums’ maintenance if voted to power in the upcoming Delhi Assembly poll. “Our upcoming government will create a separate department to ensure cleanliness in the Jhuggi settlements,” BJP South Delhi MP …

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A Legal Intro To Redevelopment In Mumbai
3 weeks ago

A Legal Intro To Redevelopment In Mumbai

Live Law  

Mumbai, India's financial capital and most populous city, faces a monumental challenge in accommodating its ever-growing population within its limited geographical area. Several key provisions of the DCPR 2034 directly relate to redevelopment projects: Regulation 33 pertains to the redevelopment of cessed buildings under the jurisdiction of the Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority. Utilization of Incentive FSI under DCR …

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Changes in Delhi slum redevelopment scheme, developers, residents to benefit
3 weeks, 3 days 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 …

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Delhi: LG relaxes slum rehab policy
3 weeks, 4 days 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 …

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Haryana polls: 30 years later, slum dwellers in Panchkula still await solid ground
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Haryana polls: 30 years later, slum dwellers in Panchkula still await solid ground

Hindustan Times  

“Slum-free Panchkula”, a scheme envisioned in 1994, still remains a pipeline dream 30 years later. With Bhajan Lal’s son Chander Mohan joining the contest from Panchkula in the upcoming assembly polls, promising the Panchkula of his father’s dream, slum dwellers’ hopes have once again come alive. We have been hearing this for the last three decades.” Prasad, who has been …

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Plan to resettle Dharavi residents at Dahisar dropped following local opposition
3 months, 1 week ago

Plan to resettle Dharavi residents at Dahisar dropped following local opposition

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Under pressure from Dahisar residents, the state government has cancelled its plans of relocating the ineligible tenants of the Dharavi slums at the Dahisar octroi naka depot. Along with Dahisar, BMC and government-owned plots at Mulund, Wadala and Kurla were chosen to resettle Dharavi residents. BOX Unwelcome everywhere Plans to construct rental housing for the Dharavi slum dwellers in …

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Study reveals alarming economic burden of TB treatment
6 months, 1 week ago

Study reveals alarming economic burden of TB treatment

The Hindu  

A study of 1,482 TB patients across four states revealed shockingly high rates of catastrophic costs, with 30% to 61% experiencing financial hardship exceeding 20% of pre-TB annual household income mainly due to delays in diagnosis and income loss because of unemployment during long TB treatment. In the output approach, which was the second form of modelling, reduced productivity in …

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Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: January 22 - January 28, 2024
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: January 22 - January 28, 2024

Live Law  

Nominal Index: Raktima Khanum AND Union of India & Others. Ownpath Learning Private Limited and said “Freezing the bank accounts of the Petitioner - Company in respondent No.2 Bank, is quashed.” PDS Depots Not Profit Oriented, Unscrupulous License Holders Must Be Weeded Out: Karnataka High Court Case Title: K L Shivanna AND Deputy Commissioner, Tumkuru District Case No: Writ Appeal …

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Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC
1 year, 4 months ago

Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Reiterating that the promise of free housing to encroachers—slum dwellers—is fundamentally flawed, the Bombay high court on Thursday asserted that it must be ensured that the government policy of rehabilitating them “is not abused and there is no wholesale profiteering at public expense”. HT Image The division bench of justice Gautam Patel and justice Neela Gokhale made the observations …

Slum Dwellers Rehabilitation Bench Sra Slum Tenements Public Expense
Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC
1 year, 4 months ago

Stop abuse of slum rehabilitation schemes, profiteering at public expense: HC

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Reiterating that the promise of free housing to encroachers—slum dwellers—is fundamentally flawed, the Bombay high court on Thursday asserted that it must be ensured that the government policy of rehabilitating them “is not abused and there is no wholesale profiteering at public expense”. HT Image {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The division bench of justice Gautam Patel and justice Neela …

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Cuffe Parade slum dwellers get seed funding for business ventures
1 year, 5 months ago

Cuffe Parade slum dwellers get seed funding for business ventures

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: In the upscale Cuffe Parade-Colaba area, where the ultra-rich share the neighbourhood with slum dwellers, a great new initiative has been taken by a Cuffe Parade resident along with former local corporators. “This is the first time such a project has happened through seed funding,” said former corporator Makarand Narwekar. “We are proud of our participants, who will now …

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SPOTLIGHT | How government neglect left thousands homeless in Delhi’s Tughlakabad
1 year, 6 months ago

SPOTLIGHT | How government neglect left thousands homeless in Delhi’s Tughlakabad

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 15, 2023 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ One month after the Bengali Basti near South Delhi’s historical Tughlakabad Fort was bulldozed, its residents continue to salvage whatever is left in the debris of corrugated tin, cardboard, plastic sheets, bricks, and their demolished dreams. In the recent demolition drive, over 1,500 houses of over 10,000 residents were …

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Why slum dwellers in Bangladesh have got a reason to smile
1 year, 8 months ago

Why slum dwellers in Bangladesh have got a reason to smile

India Today  

Yasmin has spent over two decades with her husband and children in a slum. Yasmin is now in a multi-storied building with modern facilities - in a building constructed by Sheikh Hasina's government for the slum dwellers. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave this opportunity to the slum dwellers,” Rehana said. These buildings for slum dwellers in Dhaka are a unique …

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AAP MLAs stage dharna outside BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri's residence over demolition of slums in South Delhi
1 year, 11 months ago

AAP MLAs stage dharna outside BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri's residence over demolition of slums in South Delhi

India Today  

Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, along with slum dwellers, staged a dharna outside Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s residence on Lodhi Road in New Delhi on Saturday. The protesters included AAP MLAs Atishi, Madan Lal, Katar Singh Tanwar and Sahiram Pahalwan, who opposed the demolition of slums in South Delhi neighbourhoods such as Tughlaqabad. The slum dwellers staged a dharna …

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Bombay High Court Refuses To Quash Acquisition Of Woman's Property For Slum Rehabilitation
2 years ago

Bombay High Court Refuses To Quash Acquisition Of Woman's Property For Slum Rehabilitation

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court recently refused to set aside acquisition of a 5115.2 m 2 property in Borivali for slum rehabilitation observing that the owner showed no bonafide intention to redevelop the area on her own and the acquisition cannot be set aside disregarding her conduct. "…we find that public interest demands that the slum rehabilitation scheme should not be …

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Government focussing on rehabilitation of slum dwellers: Hardeep Singh Puri
2 years ago

Government focussing on rehabilitation of slum dwellers: Hardeep Singh Puri

The Hindu  

The Centre is committed to rehabilitating slum dwellers in Delhi and there is less than one 'jhuggi' per acre of land earmarked for their resettlement, the Centre informed the Rajya Sabha. Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Minister for Housing and Urban Development Hardeep Singh Puri said the Centre has already provided alternative accommodation to the eligible people but …

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MCD elections in Delhi brings garbage and a polluted Yamuna into focus
2 years ago

MCD elections in Delhi brings garbage and a polluted Yamuna into focus

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 01, 2022 10:45 IST On October 2, 2014, barely five months after the Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power at the Centre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wielded a broom at Valmiki Basti, a colony of sanitation workers in New Delhi. In 2019, on October 2, the Prime Minister, while delivering his keynote address at Kartavya Path, said, …

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‘Centre’s redevelopment projects likely to benefit at least 1.35 crore people in city’
2 years ago

‘Centre’s redevelopment projects likely to benefit at least 1.35 crore people in city’

The Hindu  

Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said the various redevelopment projects of the Central government, including the “Jahan Jhuggi Wahin Makaan” and the PM-UDAY schemes, are expected to benefit at least 1.35 crore residents of Delhi. Mr. Puri said the “Jahan Jhuggi Wahin Makaan” scheme will benefit 10 lakh slum dwellers in Delhi, while …

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BJP takes 10,000 slum dwellers to Kalkaji EWS flats in Delhi
2 years ago

BJP takes 10,000 slum dwellers to Kalkaji EWS flats in Delhi

The Hindu  

The BJP on Sunday took around 10,000 slum dwellers to visit the recently constructed flats for the Economically Weaker Sections at Bhumiheen Camp in Kalkaji. The move comes days after the party, in its manifesto for the civic body polls, promised to help seven lakh families living in the slums get a pucca house by 2027 under various Central schemes. …

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The Cost of Flats Handed Over by PM Modi in Delhi & How Much Slum Dwellers Have to Pay
2 years, 1 month ago

The Cost of Flats Handed Over by PM Modi in Delhi & How Much Slum Dwellers Have to Pay

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over the keys to 3,024 newly constructed Economically Weaker Section-category flats in Delhi as part of the in situ slum rehabilitation project on Wednesday. The cost of construction of each of the flats allotted to eligible households under the government’s in situ rehabilitation of Bhumiheen Camp’s slum dwellers in Delhi is nearly Rs 11.41 lakh, …

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Slum-free Mumbai: The right of people to get a home of their own
2 years, 2 months ago

Slum-free Mumbai: The right of people to get a home of their own

India Today  

The right to housing has been declared to be a basic right for all people, and yet, particularly in large urban centers, it has been found almost impossible to implement this right meaningfully. SRA was given the powers to declare any area as a slum, and a Slum Redevelopment Scheme could be started there with the concurrence of 70% of …

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People do not stay in slums out of choice: Delhi HC
2 years, 5 months ago

People do not stay in slums out of choice: Delhi HC

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court directed relocation of five slum dwellers who were shifted from Shahid Basti jhuggi in Nabi Karim to Lahori Gate side at the time of the expansion of the New Delhi railway station. Justice C. Hari Shankar said the five slum dwellers would present themselves before the officer concerned of the Indian Railways with all documents in …

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Delhi High Court Monthly Digest: June 2022 [Citations 513 - 598]
2 years, 5 months ago

Delhi High Court Monthly Digest: June 2022 [Citations 513 - 598]

Live Law  

Nominal Index Case Title: SH JAGMOHAN KASHYAP v. GOVT. S.19 Prevention Of Corruption Act | 'Failure Of Justice' Is A Facile Expression, Courts Must Be Circumspect While Determining It: Delhi High Court Case Title: DEVENDER GUPTA v. CBI Citation: 2022 LiveLaw 574 In reference to Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which provides that a judicial order may …

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HC to oversee rehab of slum dwellers in Delhi under JNNURM scheme
2 years, 6 months ago

HC to oversee rehab of slum dwellers in Delhi under JNNURM scheme

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Taking note of the non-allotment of around 30,000 flats under union government’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission Scheme for rehabilitation of slum dwellers in the city, the Delhi high court has initiated a suo moto Public Interest Litigation to look into the implementation of the scheme to be enforced by the city government. “Considering the large number …

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