Slum Rehabilitation

Mumbai to soon get 11 lakh new houses

Mumbai is soon to witness around eleven lakh new houses with seven lakh in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) alone.

GVK-led Mumbai airport ends slum redevelopment pact with HDIL

What Rohit Shetty doesn't get: We need to have domestic slum tours

A walk through a slum would be quite educative to the non-slum residents. The enormity of a struggle of a life in hovels comes alive.

When Dharavi grows up, it does not want to be Shanghai

From tent cities to pucca neighbourhoods, slums possess a sense of order from their beginnings. Yet labelled 'difficult' areas by the SRA, the slums can deal with demolition but not the finality of rehabilitation.

Slum rights till 2000: more than mere politics

By extending legal protection to slum dwellers who moved into their homes after 1 January 1995, the Congress-NCP combine has given into populism, but has taken down of a major hurdle to rehabilitation.