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Reliance Industries-led consortium wins bid for 101-acre Mumbai slum redevelopment projectA Reliance-led consortium has secured the bid for the massive Juhu Galli slum redevelopment in Mumbai. This project will build over 28,000 ...- Dharavi project to follow Singapore and Hong Kong housing development model: Devendra FadnavisMumbai's Dharavi Redevelopment Project will mirror Singapore and Hong Kong's modern housing. The first phase aims for completion by March 2...
- Dharavi redevelopment poses one of India's biggest real estate execution tests: HSBCThe Dharavi Redevelopment Project, one of the world's largest urban regeneration initiatives, presents a "massive execution challenge"Group...
- "Signal Shala": Mumbai flyover school offers big lifeline to street childrenA unique school operating from shipping containers in Mumbai provides education to children from marginalised communities. Many of these ch...
- Last Orders: Delhi Gymkhana Club told to vacate 27-acre Lutyens' plotThe Delhi Gymkhana Club must vacate its Lutyens' Delhi property by June 5. The Land and Development Office requires the 27.3-acre plot for ...
- Upper-floor eligibility in Dharavi slum rehabilitation tied to ground-floor status, documentsUpper-floor residents in Dharavi can now get new homes. Eligibility depends on ground-floor occupants. A new government rule offers 300 sq ...
- India is also tech hub, 4th largest economy: RSS Gen Secy dismisses common American perception about IndiaRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale highlighted India's status as a tech hub and the world's fourth-largest e...
- Quote of the day by American social reformer Jacob Riis on how to achieve big things in life: ‘When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that last blow that did it but all that had gone before.’Jacob Riis, a pioneering journalist and photographer, exposed the harsh realities of late 19th-century urban poverty through his powerful s...
- Voter roll deletions shift West Bengal polls from governance to identity battleWest Bengal's election focus has dramatically shifted. Massive deletions from electoral rolls have transformed the campaign. Issues of corr...
- Adani Properties to invest Rs 1 lakh cr to redevelop Mumbai’s 143-acre Motilal NagarAdani Properties will invest over Rs 1 lakh crore to redevelop Mumbai's Motilal Nagar, a 143-acre project set to become the second-largest ...
- MIDC invites redevelopment bids for 338-acre Thane-Belapur belt slum clustersMIDC is redeveloping over 338 acres of slum areas in the Thane-Belapur industrial belt. This project aims to rehabilitate slum dwellers and...
- 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...
- Fewer parents in urban slums of Delhi feel girls should repress their anger: Sesame Workshop India Study20.32% parents felt their children learnt how to manage their own feelings better with support of adults as compared to before, with a 15.4...
- 67% girls in urban slums didn't attend online classes during first lockdown: ReportThe study by NGO "Save The Children" in February last year also found that 68 per cent of girls, aged between 10 and 18 years, faced challe...
- Only half of urban slum households surveyed in 6 states use LPG exclusively: CEEWThe survey was conducted in urban slums across the six states. It covered 656 households across 83 notified and non-notified urban slums in...
- Housing for all by 2022 faces 'slum challenge'Under the in-situ development sub-scheme of PM Awas Yojna (PMAY-Urban), slum dwellers will get houses at the same location to ensure their ...
- About half of slums reported no change in basic amenities, says National Sample Survey reportIn an estimated 17 per cent of all urban slums, drainage facilities did not exist either 5 years earlier, or on the date of survey.
- South Extension-II, Kidwai Nagar commercialisation will create urban slum: Delhi High CourtDelhi HC expressed apprehension that commercialisation & redevelopment project of South Extension-II & Kidwai Nagar would lead to creation ...
- 8.8 million families live in 33,510 urban slumsIt said 33,510 slums were estimated to be in the urban areas of the country of which 41 per cent were notified.
- People in urban slums contribute over 7% of GDP: Study"Assuming urban GDP is about 60% of total GDP, the total contribution of informal settlement dwellers to urban GDP of India is 7.53%," said...
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