The NSSO and other independent studies indicate that the percentage of causal and self-employed workers in urban areas is over 60% of the w...

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed Parliament regarding the progress of the flagship scheme, under which 4.5 million houses would b...

The court also mulled over the issue of having state-wise committees to deal with the issue relating to urban homeless and implementation o...

Even as other cities in the state are doing well in implementing this programme, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is at the bo...

The apex court on September 13 favoured an audit of the government funds meant for providing shelters to the urban homeless, saying the mon...

"The money is not spent by the states and the sufferers are the homeless people. How can you ensure that the money is spent? It should not ...

It appointed the committee to after the Centre informed the court that around 50% of the Rs 2,185 crore released have not been utilised by ...

One bank will be designated as the nodal agency for each state to coordinate with all other banks to increase banking linkages for loan sup...

The scheme comes with an aim of constructing more than 2 cr houses within a span of 7 years. The scheme, started in 2015, would end in 2022.

"It is a big scam. Your (Centre's) affidavit tells us everything. Where has the money gone?" asked a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U ...

Court's obervations came after perusing the affidavit filed by the Ministry on the progress made by various state governments under the NUL...

The social-justice bench said the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is under an obligation to monitor the use of funds give...

"I am not targeting any particular ULB or state because situation is same in more or less everywhere. There are ULBs controlled by BJP also...

The apex court had directed the HUPA Ministry to convene such a meeting for taking stock of availability of shelters and file an affidavit.

It said that a report, giving details of the actions taken so far, be filed within three weeks and the meeting of the Chief Secys has to be...

Naidu noted that of the 14.43 lakh houses embarked upon, only 8.09 lakh could be completed and of these 2.22 lakh were yet to be occupied b...

Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi foresees a time when shelter for common men becomes a right in the lines of Right to Education.