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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.
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 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.
The first federal slum clearance program was proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, citing the high cost of land as the primary reason for government intervention. In 1949, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee stated in its report that 1 in 5 urban families lived in slum conditions. Federal law required cities to relocate ...
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
According to a 2012 report submitted to the World Bank by Karnataka Slum Clearance Board, Bangalore had 862 slums out of around 2000 slums in all of Karnataka. 42% of the households migrated from different parts of India like Chennai, Hyderabad and most of North India, and 43% of the households had remained in the slums for over 10 years.
Slum clearance in the United States; Slum upgrading; T. Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 07:35 (UTC). Text is ...
In the UK, the slum clearance effort was bigger in scale than the formation of British Railways, the National Health Service and other state programs. UK Government data suggests the clearances that took place after 1955 demolished about 1.5 million slum properties, resettling about 15% of UK's population out of these properties. [ 269 ]