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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.
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 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 ]
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 ...
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.
She promised they would not be evicted, but in 1976, 12,000 police stormed the slum and evicted all 70,000 people in one night. Everyone was forcibly transferred to the still extant Cheetah Camp slum. [4] When India declared a state of emergency, Arputham was forced to flee the country in 1977 to avoid imprisonment. [6]
Hut communities, or slums, may be managed by slum lords, which may have access to water, but rarely sewer facilities. [17] The term "slum" does not in all cases mean that the community is an illegal one; some slums are legal housing communities. [18] As of 2009 there were about 170 million people living in slums.
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 ...