User: swetharao Topic: Slums in Bangalore
Category: Demolition
Last updated: Jun 02 2010 15:01 IST RSS 2.0
 
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Slumdwellers oppose eviction for Metro 2.6.2010 Deccan Herald: City
Slumdwellers oppose eviction for Metro
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Slumdwellers oppose eviction for �Namma Metro� 1.6.2010 Deccan Herald: State
Slumdwellers oppose eviction for �Namma Metro�
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Hiranandani Gets Subsidies, Reprieve; Slums Get Demolished 28.5.2010 The South Asian
The struggle for housing rights continues in Mumbai by residents of Anna Bhau Sathe Nagar slums (which was demolished on 12th May by police action despite a stay order).
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Slum houses are of poor quality: study (Cached) 23.5.2010 TOI: Bangalore Times
People unaware of the work taken up in their slums, quality of existing dwelling proved better than the ones constructed by government, lack of water and sanitation facilities - were some of the findings of the 'Case Study of Bengaluru Slums', a survey conducted by Citizens Voluntary Organization for the City.
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BMRCL demolishes slum for Metro project (Cached) 14.4.2010 Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore

April 13: People of the Jai Bheemanagar slum had to spend Monday night in a temple and in homes of neighbours as the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) demolished 70 houses in the slum to make way for the Metro Rail and a 90 ft wide road behind the Mantri Greens project.
The slum dwellers alleged they were not given time to move their belongings out of the houses and that the demolit

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Tension over demolition in Mathikere (Cached) 4.4.2010 Deccan Chronicle: Bangalore

April 3: There was tension in the city as the BBMP began demolishing houses at the M S Jairam slum to widen the road at the Mathikere Road Over Bridge (ROB) on Saturday.
Slum dwellers, who claimed they had not been informed about the demolition, gathered in protest and tried to stop the authorities from bulldozing their homes. The police, which was called in, did mild caning to disperse the mob

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Inside Delhi (Cached) 23.3.2010 Hindu: New Delhi
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ABIDe's Plan Bengaluru 2020 - summary (Cached) 10.2.2010 Citizen Matters
Governance 1. Create new Bengaluru legislation that supersedes /encompasses all Bengaluru/Municipal body legislations like BWSSB Act, BBMP act etc - Bengaluru Region Governance Act, (BRGA) 2009. 2. Establish the Bangalore Spatial Information Centre (BASIC). 3. Strengthen the Lok Ayukta Act. 4. Amend the Karnataka Transparency Act. 5. The Bengaluru City Report card to be presented by the BMRDA/MPC with Chief Minister as Chairman. 6. Launch official city website www.nammabengaluru.gov.in 7. Establish the Institute of Urban Planning and Governance (IUPG). Roads, Traffic Management and Transportation 1. Establish ongoing transport demand growth study and research. 2. Make a single nodal agency responsible for… ...
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Amar Singh, Jaya Prada expelled from Samajwadi Party 2.2.2010 Deccan Herald: National
Newly-appointed general secretary Mohan Singh told reporters that they were trying to split the party.
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�Govt made deliberate errors� 2.2.2010 Deccan Herald: City
JD(S) leader H D Revanna, speaking to the media in Bangalore, said the BJP government was not prepared for the polls. Fearing poor performance in the polls the government introduced mistakes while fixing reservation for the BBMP wards. Later, the party entrusted its own men to challenge the reservation in Court. He also criticised the State Election Commission’s act of cancelling the elections. He alleged the Commission of dancing to the tunes of the State government.
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Vision document for irrigation projects 1.2.2010 Deccan Herald: State
Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai, on Monday, said the Vision document - 2020 would be released in next 10 days.Bommai said, so far there had been no vision document for irrigation projects. The document would include the projects that would be taken up for implementation in the next 10 years and the status of the on-going projects.The minister said the government would set up a cell to constantly review quality of irrigation projects.
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Partial demolition? (Cached) 25.11.2009 New Indian Express
Partial demolition?
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No heed to outcry of the poor during demolition drives (Cached) 9.11.2009 Hindu: Karnataka
Notices are hardly issued in advance and middlemen are not held accountable
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Mr Chidambaram’s War (Cached) 9.11.2009 Essays
A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
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50 vehicles smashed in vandal streak (Cached) 1.11.2009 New Indian Express
50 vehicles smashed in vandal streak
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Bike journey with a purpose� 30.10.2009 Deccan Herald: City
Bike journey with a purpose�
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BBMP tries to bring down one more slum (Cached) 3.9.2009 Hindu: Karnataka
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BBMP tries to bring down one more slum (Cached) 2.9.2009 Hindu: Karnataka
Bangalore: There seems to be no respite from slum demolitions in Bangalore. The latest instance is the attempt by BBMP officials to bring down houses at Basappanakatte in Peenya II Stage on Tuesday. Residents said that the officials brought ...
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On protecting Bengaluru's public space (Cached) 10.7.2009 Citizen Matters

Many of us know that hundreds of trees are  felled all over the city under the guise of road widening often with no prior approval. Traders, home-owners, street vendors and slum dwellers are  dislocated without appropriate compensation apparently for various infrastructure projects without guarantee that these tasks will meet their proposed objectives and deadlines.

Knowing that we could either accept or question the largely brazen and undemocratic approach adopted in the name of the city's development, some groups such as Hasiru Usiru, CIVIC, Environment Support Group (ESG) and other individuals have been doing the latter with some…

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Slum-dweller’s kin yet to get relief (Cached) 22.6.2009 Hindu: Karnataka
BANGALORE: The anger over the slum demolition in A. Narayanapura followed by the death of evicted slum dweller Raniamma has not quietened yet, and activists and other slum-dwellers say her next of kin has not received compensation yet. ...
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