Mumbai: This week marks six months since the eligibility survey for the redevelopment of one of Asia’s largest slums commenced. Residents of around 14,000 tenements out of 300,000 and nearly 40,000 ...

For every resident who gets a new flat under the slum rehabilitation, nearly 10 move to other slums, finds a study of 15 years of projects. Only a third were finished. Residents are evicted first and ...

A single-judge bench of justice NJ Jamadar upheld an April order of the Apex Grievance Redressal Committee (AGRC), which ...

Mumbai is being ruled in a way which guarantees that it will be permanently infested with slums – new, vertical, permanent slums in replacement of the old, temporary, mostly horizontal slums. The Slum ...

The slum clusters in Badli, Shahdara, Pitampura and Tilak Nagar house the largest number of households to be considered for rehabilitation.

Mumbai, one of India's most dynamic urban centres, is undergoing a transformation as redevelopment projects surge across both the island city and the suburbs. Despite one in every three residential ...

With the Supreme Court recognising that the right to live encompasses the right to shelter, citizens residing in the informal sector have become protected automatically. Sections 13 and 14 of the slum ...

Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) will now issue notices to private landowners and allow them to raise objections at a hearing before notifying slums on their lands for initiation of rehabilitation ...

A little off the western corridor of the Outer Ring Road (ORR), which runs along the perimeter of Bengaluru, less than a kilometre away from Laggere bridge, stand hundreds of identical buildings along ...