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Residents of the rapidly growing Thane city will soon find their daily struggle for water coming to an end. For, newly developed upscale residential constructions in the city adjoining the financial capital as well as several sprawling slum pockets are set to benefit from the early completion of the Thane Municipal Corporation’s ambitious 110 million litres a day (mld) water supply scheme.
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Next time you visit the Siddhivinayak temple at Prabhadevi in the evening, just ask the gateman where the maalak (owner) is. He will point to a tall but weak and poor man.
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Two girls in Mumbai are leading students and residents of slums to host shows on a radio station started by the Mumbai University.
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has ‘gifted’ a prime piece of land worth Rs 160 crore near Bandra Kurla Complex to a builder to be redeveloped under the slum rehabilitation scheme despite there being no slums whatsoever on the plot. read more »
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More than 50,000 flats are added to Mumbai's real estate sector ever year. However, only those who earn a crore and above per annum can afford it.
City-based builders are either constructing houses for the uber-rich or for the slum dwellers to avail the free Floor Space Index (FSI).
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City-based builders are either constructing houses for the uber-rich or for the slum dwellers to avail the free Floor Space Index (FSI).
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Pune may be an IT city with a middle-class, cosmopolitan slant, but with 40 per cent of the population living in slums, it is they who will call the shots when it comes to electing representatives in the state assembly and the Lok Sabha.
With a high voting turnout, slums are important vote banks, so political parties are making sure that every voter here gets a voter identity card (ID).
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With a high voting turnout, slums are important vote banks, so political parties are making sure that every voter here gets a voter identity card (ID).
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Janardhan Lad who lives in a slum near Bandra-Kurla Complex was ecstatic on being allotted a one-room tenement in a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) building nearby as the hutments were to make way for a market and a residential complex.
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Home to vibrant enterprises, the unorganised handicrafts industry in continent’s biggest slum has finally received its seal of official recognition. The ministry of textiles has started the process of issuing thousands of identification cards to the potters in Kumbharwada in Dharavi.
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Steady migration of people from rural areas to cities brings huge problems in its wake. Mumbai - according to the UN - has a population of 19 million. And the UN forecasts that total will rise to more than 26 million by 2025.
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Eight-year-old Karan Kumar collects polythene bags and recycled waste around the city and as the clock hits 2 pm, he stops doing his work.
Soon, a van wheels in bringing a smile on his face. A host of other kids join him as they run towards it.
The ‘Manoranjan Shala’ van, a mobile school initiative, is a sliver of hope for kids like Karan from their daily grind at slums, pavements, constr read more »
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Soon, a van wheels in bringing a smile on his face. A host of other kids join him as they run towards it.
The ‘Manoranjan Shala’ van, a mobile school initiative, is a sliver of hope for kids like Karan from their daily grind at slums, pavements, constr read more »
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There's not much that the inhabitants of Dharavi can't recycle. Every day thousands of workers in India's most crowded slum--600,000 people squeezed into 500 acres (200 hectares) in the heart of Mumbai--shred plastic, mend clothes, strip computers, sort and bundle paper, fix machinery, flatten cardboard and clean and crush glass. The level of specialization is extraordinary. In the workshop of
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T Chandrashekar resigned as the CEO of Maharashtra housing and area development authority (MHADA)on January 25 two days after he was shunted out of slum rehabilitation authority, was visibly upset as he was stated to be humiliated by some Congress MLAs and party functionaries who had complained to the Chief Minister against his style of working.
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Pop star Madonna toured the Mumbai slums on Tuesday with Gregory David Roberts, the convicted robber who turned his time spent there following an escape from an Australian prison into the best-selling novel "Shantaram".
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Forty per cent of Pune's population, an estimated 14 lakh people, live in slums.
According to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) estimates, some 88,000 people migrated to the city in 2006, of which 45,000 settled in the slums. Every year, the number of people migrating to the city will continue to multiply.
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According to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) estimates, some 88,000 people migrated to the city in 2006, of which 45,000 settled in the slums. Every year, the number of people migrating to the city will continue to multiply.
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Mumbai-A city that demands total surrender before it gives you the permission to survive and hence becomes probably the only city to witness some mind gripping stories. Mumbai’s clogged streets are paved with stories of courage &fear, success & failures,desires & frustration,crime &wealth.
A high profile socialite, A slum dweller, A bar girl, A taxi driver, Mafia, Monsoon, trains ,street chil read more »
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A high profile socialite, A slum dweller, A bar girl, A taxi driver, Mafia, Monsoon, trains ,street chil read more »
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