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Dharavi slum in Mumbai, pictured in 2008. Between 2008 and 2010, the state government gifted over 500 acres (200 ha) of slum areas to six developments on a first-come-first-serve basis, without any checks taking place on developer's credentials and under Section 3K of the Slum Act, which bypasses the usually mandatory requirement to obtain 70% consent of slum dwellers.
Joseph Alexander (8 August 1938 – 14 January 2022) was an Indian bureaucrat and politician who served as Chief Secretary and Cabinet Minister, Karnataka State. He was the first Indian Administrative Service officer to serve as a minister in the State.
Slum clearance is still practiced today in a number of different situations. During major international events like conferences and sporting competitions, governments have been known to forcefully clear low-income housing areas as a strategy to impress international visitors and reduce the visibility of the host cities' apparent poverty. [ 3 ]
The Act was first published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) on 13 September 2001 to replace the then existing Karnataka State Universities Act, 1976.The Act was enacted with a view to increase the number of higher educational facilities in the state, and to create a common structure of administration over them.
She sat on the Housing Task Force set up by the Government of Karnataka for submitting a report on the housing for the urban poor [8] and was a member of the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board. She also holds the positions of the Managing Trustee of the Ranjini Dwaraknath Reddy Trust (RDRT) [7] and the trustee of the Karnataka chapter of Sarvodaya ...
Secretary, Karnataka State Slum Dwellers Federation – This organisation educates & mobilises slum dwellers to fight for their rights. Secretary, Organisation Building at the National Centre for Labour – This is the apex organisation for unorganised labour in India and is involved in the lobbying and drafting the Social Security Bill for the ...
The Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University Bill, 2016 was passed in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in March 2016, [5] and in the Karnataka Legislative Council in July 2016. [6] The university was inaugurated in March 2018 by chief minister Siddaramaiah, and started operating from the district administration building.
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi State Public University 47 Numerous engineering colleges across Karnataka, including B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru 5 University of Mysore, Mysuru State Public University 54 Maharaja's College, Mysuru; St. Philomena's College, Mysuru 6 Christ University, Bengaluru Deemed University 60