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City of Dumps Part 3: 'Just vertical slums': Dreams dashed as shift to SRA flats in Pune leads to sanitation, cleanliness woes
September 27, 2025 5:52 pm
According to a former PMC corporator, the mentality of slum dwellers should change and efforts should be taken to improve their socio-economic condition when they are relocated from huts to buildings.
Over 500 families get keys of flats under Worli BDD Chawl redevelopment project
August 14, 2025 1:59 pm
The key distribution ceremony of the first batch took place in Mumbai in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, and other ministers.
‘Don’t know when bulldozer will come and demolish our house’: Okhla village residents spend sleepless nights after receiving eviction notice
May 25, 2025 7:20 pm
Okhla village residents in Delhi mull legal options to save their homes, shops.
Colonies illegal, UT decides to take down city’s 2 big slums in 2 months
February 16, 2022 2:27 am
A notice regarding the same was also put up about the same for people residing there. The notice was put up outside on a board declaring that the colony is illegal.
‘Sterile’ test swab sticks, made in Ulhasnagar slum
May 06, 2021 7:22 am
These plastic sticks, one thicker than the other, with cotton buds at each end, are swab sticks used to collect nasal and throat samples for RT-PCR tests.
CM Devendra Fadnavis fast-tracks affordable housing through SRA
August 13, 2015 2:26 am
Asks authority to give Rs 500 crore for Shiv Shahi project, makes secret ballot must to select developer, stresses on cluster development.
‘Housing for All’ mission: New slum rehab policy to take tips from Gujarat, Mumbai models
June 12, 2015 3:39 am
Mumbai was the first Indian city to introduce free in-situ housing for slum residents in 1998.
50 per cent households in M-East ward live in average or poor housing conditions: Report
October 15, 2014 12:31 am
The report shows that while even resettled areas in the ward are still characterised as slums, there are at least 17 settlements not recognised as slums.
Want to change Dharavi’s identity as Asia’s largest slum: Baburao Mane
October 14, 2014 1:45 am
Mane faces stiff competition from two-term Congress MLA Varsha Gaikwad and BJP’s fresh face, Divya Dhole.
In urban Maharashtra,every fourth household lives in a slum
March 14, 2014 2:55 pm
Slum growth higher in smaller towns; govt needs Rs 1.25 lakh crore to resettle slums across state
SLUM VIDEOS
Over 60 houses gutted as massive fire breaks out in Bandra slum in Mumbai
June 22, 2020 6:12 pm
A massive fire broke out in a slum opposite the Bandra Fire Station in Mumbai, gutting at least 60 houses on Tuesday. No casualties were reported, but two women and two children were admitted to a hospital after they fainted due to shock.
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