Last Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 23:29
Describing eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga as a "tragedy", human rights activist Binayak Sen accused the WB govt of being inhuman.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012, 15:59
Nonadanga, located in eastern Kolkata, has been on the boil since March 30 when the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority demolished a slum.
Last Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012, 19:54
West Bengal CM claimed that Maoists had a hand in inciting slum dwellers of Nonadanga during a recent protest against an eviction drive.
Last Updated: Monday, April 16, 2012, 19:50
Perturbed over the arrest of an eminent scientist who opposed eviction of slum dwellers in Kolkata, a group of scientists has written a letter to PM.
Last Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012, 17:11
The Delhi government has decided to construct 72,000 low-cost flats in next two years.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 11:49
The 27-year-long wait of slum dwellers to own a house in the capital may soon end.
Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2012, 23:26
Delhi government decided to give ownership rights of flats given to slum dwellers through a central city modernisation scheme.
Last Updated: Friday, January 13, 2012, 16:37
Karnataka Cabinet cleared a policy seeking to give land title deeds to slum-dwellers, remove hurdles in constructing dwelling units in such areas and provide minimum infrastructure there.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 22:16
Delhi Government on Saturday took up with the Centre the issue of delay in construction of flats under in situ relocation of slum dwellers in certain areas in the city.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 14:31
They own ration cards, voter IDs and some even passports but a number of slum dwellers in the capital are being forced to stay in makeshift homes after being evicted from their houses without a notice prior to the CWG.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 15:13
Despite the country`s robust economic growth, the number of people living in slums is likely to cross 93 million by 2011, marking an increase of around 23 percent since 2001.
Last Updated: Monday, November 22, 2010, 18:47
The Committee has been asked to frame guidelines for distribution of around 8,000 low-cost houses, built by DSIIDC in Narela, Dwarka, Bhorgarh and Bawana, to the vulnerable section at the earliest.
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