Demolish slums

But ensure good housing for all first

Rising above the muck

The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life

Highrise in loose mud

Dharavi resettlement creates a windfall for builders. Cost: local entrepreneurship

Dharavi's real estate threat

The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai's sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not …

Delhi's poll planks

Slum today, gone tomorrow

If the Union cabinet endorses a recent decision of the group of ministers, about 35,000 shanties will have to be removed from Mumbai's Santa Cruz …

Access to drinking water, power has improved in slum areas, says slum census report

63.5 per cent slum dwellers in Indian cities have mobile phone connections, but only 19 per cent have toilets

'Orangi is not unique, I am'

Akhtar Hameed Khan is one of Asia's foremost social organisers. The Orangi Pilot Proiect, Karachi's outstanding slum development programme, …

"The market usually decides the fate of slum-dwellers"

NIDHI JAMWAL discusses approaches to slum upgradation in developing countries with FAROUK TEBBAL, chief, Shelter Branch, United Nations Human …

Open floodgates

Will mere slum removals along Mithi stop Mumbai floods?

No more slumming

Builders may 'get big bonanza in Dharavi

Squatters' rights

The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

Beautification drive

Civic authorities like to demolish slums. And, as NIDHI JAMWAL finds in the case of Delhi's Yamuna Pushta, such moves invariably also flout all …

5,000 families protest slum razing

One died during forced eviction  

Dirty money, clean slums

'Redevelopment disguises landgrab'

Dharavi survey eliminates tenants

Majority of residents may not be eligible for free housing

Dharavi gets costlier, project gets delayed

Land titles to urban slum dwellers in Bangalore

Slumdog sleuths unearth scam

Housing authority was rehabilitating them in illegally built multi-storeys

Maharashtra draft urban housing policy not enough

Urban poor to get flats in multi-storeys

Dharavi redevelopment plan triggers protest

Gujarat announces Rs 13-crore scheme for state's poor

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