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Travel restrictions upend lives of people living near G20 summit venue

Colonies near Pragati Maidan cut off from the world outside, their residents stranded

Adani's Dharavi redevelopment plan spurs doubts and favouritism claims

Adani is at the helm of plans to redevelop Dharavi after the Maharashtra state government in July approved his $614 million contract bid to overhaul the slum

23,000 street children across India being rehabilitated: Official

As many as 23,000 street children identified across the country with the help of a web portal are currently being rehabilitated, officials said on Friday. The identification process was carried out on 'Bal Swaraj' a website where information about such children is uploaded and tracked in order to rehabilitate them, a senior official said. According to officials, these children are categorised into three groups. The first category consists of children who have either run away from their homes or been abandoned by their families and are living on the streets alone. The second category comprises children living on the streets with their families. The third category includes children who live in slums and are out on the streets during the day but return to their homes at night, they said. Out of the 23,000 street children, 53 per cent stay on the streets with their families, 43 per cent stay on the street during the day and then return to their homes at night and 4 per cent live alone

Delhi HC refuses to stay demolition of slums at site allotted for NDRF Hq

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the demolition of a slum cluster at the site allotted to the NDRF for construction of its headquarters but directed that the exercise be carried out on June 15 instead of June 2. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, while hearing a petition by the residents of the slum cluster Priyanka Gandhi Camp in Vasant Vihar, asked Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) to consider the plea of the petitioners for rehabilitation and shift them to a temporary shelter in the meantime. "Notice of demolition dated May 19, 2023, which will be enforced from June 2, 2023, be extended to June 15, 2023.. We have not stopped. We are not staying it. We are saying shift the date, the deadline," said the judge. The counsel for the petitioner said the families have been residing in the area for the last three decades and were entitled to rehabilitation under the relocation policy of 2015 as the cluster was part of an additional list of 82 slums covered by it. She

Dharavi wants to be redeveloped but with its residents' future secured

Questions over Adani Group's ability to pull it off but the developer says the concern is unwarranted

Delhi mayor inspects slum dwellings, asks officials to renovate dhobi ghat

Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Thursday made surprise visits to slum dwellings in Vikaspuri and directed officials to carry out renovation of a dhobi ghat and an MCD-run welfare centre there. Local MLA Mahendra Yadav and Councillor Sahib Kumar Asiwal apprised the mayor about the problems being faced by the residents of Vikaspuri, according to an official statement. "The mayor inspected the dhobi ghat at the jhuggi-jhopri colony in Hastsal. She expressed concern over the lack of facilities and the dilapidated condition of the dhobi ghat and instructed the officials to renovate infrastructure and ensure proper drainage," the statement read. The mayor also visited Kaali Basti JJ Colony in the ward and heard the problems of the local residents there. During this interaction, it came to light that some people tie their animals in public parks and places. For this, they have broken the boundary wall of a building that used to be a school, the statement said. The mayor directed that an FIR

AAP protests outside BJP office over Dhaula Kuan slum-demolition order

Aam Aadmi Party workers on Saturday staged a protest outside the Delhi BJP office, days after the city government directed its Public Works Department to immediately withdraw an order to demolish slums located near Dhaula Kuan. The PWD had on December 29 issued a notice asking slum dwellers in the Dhaula Kuan area to vacate the land within 15 days. AAP MLA Somnath Bharti asserted that his party won't let anybody's house get demolished. "What is wrong with BJP? Why are they acting against the people of Delhi?" Another MLA Aadil Ahmad said the party's agitation against the demolition order will be taken to the streets near Parliament as well. "It was in the BJP's manifesto that all slum dwellers will be given a house at the same place where slums are. But now, they are sending notices to demolish slums," he said. The Delhi government, in its notice directing the PWD to withdraw the demolition order, said it was "inhuman" to do so at the peak of winter and without making an alternate

MCD polls: BJP issues 'Wachan Patra', promises EWS flats for slum dwellers

The Delhi BJP on Thursday issued a 'Wachan Patra' ahead of the MCD polls, promising to provide EWS flats to every slum dweller in the city. Polling for the municipal elections in Delhi will be held on December 4 and votes will be counted on December 7. The 'Wachan Patra' (pledge letter) released by Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta, MP Manoj Tiwari and MCD poll management committee head Ashish Sood carried the pictures of flats allotted to slum dwellers recently in Kalkaji. The prime minister had handed over keys of the EWS flats to the beneficiaries of Bhoomiheen Camp slum in a function held at Vigyan Bhawan. Kejriwal government has never tried to improve the living condition of the slum dwellers but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proved his concern for the poor by providing good quality flats to them with all amenities, Gupta said. "The BJP is committed to provide such good quality flats as were built in Kalkaji to all the slum dwellers as per Jahan Jhuggi Wahin Makan scheme, "h

PM Modi inaugurates 3,024 EWS flats in Delhi to rehabilitate slum dwellers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated 3,024 newly constructed flats for the Economically Weaker Sections in Delhi as part of an in-situ slum rehabilitation project. He did the honours at a ceremony here which was also attended by the beneficiaries. Modi handed over the keys of the flats to many of them. This will give the slum dwellers a sense of ownership and security, a statement from the Prime Minister's Office had earlier said. The in-situ slum rehabilitation in 376 Jhuggi-Jhopri clusters is being undertaken by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in line with the prime minister's vision to provide housing for all, it said. Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena and Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri were among those who attended the event.

Delhi: PM Modi to inaugurate 3024 newly constructed EWS flats at Kalkaji

The Delhi Development Authority has undertaken three such projects at Kalkaji Extension, Jailorwala Bagh, and Kathputli Colony.

NHRC expresses concern over living conditions of Mumbai slum dwellers

The Government of Maharashtra responded that several efforts have been made and schemes formulated to provide dwelling units to the slum dwellers

Around 44% people living in Delhi slums depend on bottled water: Report

Nearly 44 per cent residents of Delhi slums depend on bottled water for drinking purposes, while around 76 per cent of households in the city have piped water connections, revealed a report

Odisha will be slum-free by 2023, focus on improving welfare: Minister

Odisha will be made slum-free by 2023 as the state is focusing on improving health and education and strengthening drinking water supplies among other welfare measures, a minister said on Friday

'Dharavi model' helps tame second Covid-19 wave in Mumbai's slum town

After reporting up to 99 Covid-19 cases daily in April, Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi has seen a gradual drop in single-day infections to under below 5 in the last couple of days

Kejriwal reviews progress of flat construction for Delhi slum dwellers

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday reviewed the progress of flats being constructed under the AAP government's rehabilitation policy for slum dwellers

Three injured as fire breaks out in slum cluster in southwest Delhi

A fire broke out in a slum cluster in southwest Delhi's Vasant Kunj area in the early hours of Friday, leaving three people injured and gutting 14 shanties, police said

Slum households still using polluting fuels despite govt's LPG push: Study

Policy group CEEW says government scheme 'must target poor households' to move to LPG.

Delhi govt to construct 89,400 flats for EWS, slum dwellers by 2025

The decision was taken in a meeting of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board(DUSIB) on Friday and it was attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

Maken slams Centre, AAP for not challenging SC ruling on slum removal

Congress slammed Modi government and Kejriwal government for not taking up the matter of demolishing 48,000 slums near the railway lines in Delhi in Supreme Court and accused them of doing politics

No slum dwellers along railway tracks will be removed for now: Centre to SC

The Centre informed the Supreme Court that no slum dwellers along the 140 km length of railway tracks in Delhi would be removed till a final decision is taken by the government