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INDIA SLUM STATISTICS
Plans afoot for urban slums survey in 2027India will conduct a nationwide survey on urban slums in 2027. This survey will gather detailed information on living conditions in these s...- India's small businesses drive jobs growth, wage gains curbed by inflationIndia's small businesses in manufacturing, trade, and services sectors added 11 million jobs in the year ending September, growing employme...
- View: Covid-19 mitigation must be planned to minimise collateral damageThe effects of Covid-19 are highly skewed across age groups: the aged are the most vulnerable; children and youth are the least. The effect...
- Rs 5 lakh cost on states, UTs for failing to file affidavit in SC on PIL for community kitchensThe court had on October 18 favoured setting up of community kitchens, saying the country needs this kind of system to tackle the problem o...
- PIL in SC for community kitchens in all states to combat hungerThe plea alleged that many children under the age of five die every day due to hunger and malnutrition and this condition was violative of ...
- Cities must plan for an India on the move or end up as slumsIn Mumbai, 2,400 migrant families move in every week; while Delhi gets its share with a two lakh intake every year.
- 2.45 lakh vacant houses mock at Modi government's housing for all dreamBJP-ruled Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, MP and Andhra Pradesh are top 5 states that account for almost 70% of the vacant low-cost houses.
- India trails on two targets under Millennium Development GoalsMDGs are international development goals that United Nations member states and numerous international organisations, including India, have ...
- All violence is "male-generated": Maneka GandhiParticipating in a live chat with users on Facebook, Gandhi called for increased participation from men in creating gender sensitivity as t...
- India needs a new school every 7 minutes: Uninon Minister Maneka GandhiManeka Gandhi said that India needs a new school every seven minutes in order to give quality education to slum children.
- India has achieved 5 of 12 targets under MDGs: GovernmentIndia has already achieved 5 of the 12 target under UN's Millennium Development Goals and is close to achieving four more by 2015, the Parl...
- Census 2011 missed 5 crore slum dwellersThrough a bunch of omissions, Census 2011 appears to seriously underestimate the number of slum dwellers in India, putting it at 6.5 crore ...
- Why Delhi is a city of extremesDelhi's per capita annual income is thrice the national average. However, nearly half of its people live in slums and unauthorised colonies.
- Despite ownership documents, urban poor fear eviction without noticeIn Mumbai, 30% households don't have ownership or tenancy documents and one in five feel insecure against eviction, says the UN's Millenniu...
- Proper development strategy needed for Indian cities and townsWe need a well integrated urban development strategy so that our 7,935 cities and towns can play a more central role in the economy.
- Planning Commission's BPL affidavit to be revisitedThe affidavit had claimed that a rural poor can manage food, health and educational requirements with a meagre 25 a day.
- Toilet trouble: Time for India to clean up its actOne of the greatest failures of the last 50 years has been the failure to lay the foundation stones of public health in the developing worl...
- HIV women forced into sex for treatment in India: reportHIV-positive women in the northern Indian state of Punjab were forced by technicians at a medical institute to have sex in return for tests...
- Slum-free? Don't even dreamAt a conference of the India-Gulf Co-operation Council on 29th May, M Ramachandran, secretary, Union ministry of urban development, while d...
- Who won’t dream of a grand slum?With civic elections round the corner in Mumbai, expect more slums to come up in the city.
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