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User: swetharao Topic: Slums in Bangalore
Category: Demolition
Last updated: Aug 28 2018 09:30 IST RSS 2.0
 
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Bengaluru Buzz: 8,561 trees to be felled | BBMP tracking tax defaulters | HC stays slum eviction…and more 25.1.2020 Citizen Matters, Bengaluru
Over 8500 trees in city outskirts proposed to be felled for road widening, BBMP trying to update its list of tax defaulters, slum eviction in east Bengaluru - read more on news from the city this week, in our roundup
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‘Peeda’: What urban villagers in Noida claim to have got in return for the lands they gave up 3.8.2019 Citizen Matters
A team of researchers met villagers and activists engaged in anindefinite dharna at the marble market site in Noida’s Sector 48. Here are the stories that the protesters shared as they explained their anger and grief.
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This novel about women fighting the demolition of their slum is a story of friendship and resilience 25.5.2019 Scroll.in
Mathangi Subramanian’s ‘A People’s History of Heaven’ is set in a fictional slum in Bengaluru.
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Bangalore Buzz: Flood warning for September | Push for suburban rail | KIA second fastest growing airport… and more 28.8.2018 Citizen Matters, Bengaluru
Been busy or away from your city? Catch up on some of the most critical developments in Bengaluru over the last one week.
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Where goes the slum dweller evicted in Indian cities? 30.5.2018 Citizen Matters
Slums are increasingly being evacuated in Indian cities, often violently, to make way for city ‘beautification’, smart cities and even book fairs. But no one tracks where the evicted poor go. »
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Demolitions changed residents' lives for the worse 29.7.2017 deccanherald.com
For Jyothi, who lived in a shanty in Ejipura, the horror of the slum eviction drive in 2013 is still fresh in her memory. She was pregnant and was due to deliver in three days when the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike bulldozers razed her shanty. "There was no one to salvage my belongings and I was not in a position to lift even a glass of water. Yet, I had to ignore my pain and shift all my belongings with my neighbours' help," recalled Jyothi. Three days later, Jyothi delivered the baby. When she returned from the hospital, the newborn had the open sky as her roof. "We still sleep on the footpath," Jyothi narrated. Her neighbour Nusrath delivered her baby on the footpath amid the ruins. These facts came out at the launch of 'Bengaluru's Continuing Inequity', an eviction impact assessment report of Ejipura four years after its demolition. The report was prepared by the Housing and Land Rights Network, Fields View and Forum Against EWS Land Grab. Second eviction The Palike had built the quarters for ...
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BBMP digitising all revenue records to prevent tampering: BBMP Commissioner 16.9.2016 Citizen Matters

BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad talks about his experience as a bureaucrat, his work at BBMP and BBMP's plans to streamline finances and land records.
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7.5 guntas of encroached land recovered so far in Rajarajeshwari Nagar 21.8.2016 Hindu: News
Reports of a fresh survey being undertaken by the Joint Director of Surveys between Madiwala lake and Akshayanagar triggered rumours that properties violating the new National Green Tribunal (NGT) buf...
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Who will prosecute BBMP for creating the big mess? 7.8.2016 TOI: All Headlines
Who will prosecute BBMP for creating the big mess?
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NGT’s well-timed order on penalising construction companies can help revive Bengaluru’s damaged lakes 7.5.2016 FirstPost: India

The penalty slapped by the NGT to the companies for constructing around Bellandur lake in Bengaluru was presiding over the PIL filed by the Namma Bengaluru Foundation. The judgement couldn’t have come sooner.

The post NGT’s well-timed order on penalising construction companies can help revive Bengaluru’s damaged lakes appeared first on Firstpost.
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Homeless out in cold, no govt helping hand 22.1.2016 Noida - City - The Times of India
About 300 people are still having to live in the cold amidst the rubble and broken shanties left after the Tuesday's demolition drive at Kaushambi.
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Raiding federalism 16.12.2015 HBL: Opinion
This refers to the report, “CBI raid on Kejriwal aide triggers political slugfest” (December 16). Whether the Delhi Chief Minister has matched provocation (the raid) with overreaction (cal...
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Delhi, Centre should have coordinated better: ​Sheila Dikshit 15.12.2015 TOI: Delhi Times
Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday blamed lack of coordination between the Centre and the state government for the death of a sixmonth-old on Sunday night during the demolition drive in west ...
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Call to retain Justice Adi gets shriller, online support grows 26.11.2015 deccanherald.com
In the wake of Congress legislators' move to bring in a motion in the Assembly, seeking the removal of Upalokayukta Justice Subhash B Adi, members of various lake trusts and civic groups of Bengaluru have started an online petition seeking the chief minister's intervention to stop such attempts. Addressed to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the petition on change.org has garnered more than 150 supporters within two days. The Iblur lake team, Save Varthur lake team, Puttenahalli Neighbourhood Lake Improvement Trust (PNLIT), Forum for Sustainable South Bangalore, Kaikondrahalli lake team among others have reminded the CM about the steps taken by the Upalokayukta to revive water bodies. Usha Rajagopalan, chairperson, PNLIT, said Justice Adi was able to do what no one else could, neither officials nor politicians, with regard to relocating the slum from the Puttenahalli lake bund. She said, "The slum was relocated with proper infrastructure facility. The Lokayukta office is a much-needed one and the post should ...
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Ross perfected urban sanitation here to fight malaria abroad 15.11.2015 TOI: Cities
When a rash of dengue cases over whelmed city hospitals earlier this year, BBMP of ficials maintained a studious silence at a critical stock-taking ...
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Congress cries foul over house scheme for poor 11.6.2015 TOI: All Headlines
Congress cries foul over house scheme for poor
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Cong cries foul over undue charge from poor house owners 10.6.2015 TOI: All Headlines
Cong cries foul over undue charge from poor house owners
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Dollars Colony residents nervous 16.5.2015 deccanherald.com
Residents of Dollars Colony (JP Nagar), an upmarket layout with neatly laid-out roads, wide spaces and big residences, are deeply anxious about possible demolitions in their area. When will the notice come and what will it state? How should they respond to it? What will happen to houses built on hard-earned savings and work of over 20, 30 years? These are the issues worrying the residents in the light of demolitions taken up by the Banglore Urban district authorities in other areas. A prominent resident, Siddaiah, former Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) commissioner, is pushing hard with others to prove that they have done nothing illegal. "We are not encroachers, squatters or criminals. We have purchased sites as per BDA regulations and the BDA knows it. The BDA should come out with a detailed report and submit it to the State government and to the revenue department, to prove that the BDA itself had formed the layout," Siddaiah told Deccan Herald. His question: "BDA itself has a revenue officer ...
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Kannadiga versus Goan row: Goa BJP responds to 'threat' 17.4.2015 deccanherald.com
A day after a senior Karnataka minister issued a threat against several thousand Goan IT professionals living in Bengaluru, the Goa BJP on Friday replied in equal measure, saying that Goa, too, hosted many Kannadigas who were working in the government and private sector. The comments were made by Bharatiya Janata Partys Goa spokesperson Damodar Naik after the alleged inflammatory speeches made by Karnatakas Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande over demolition of illegal shanties in the Baina area in south Goa. Some of the shanties house Kannadigas and the ministers subtle warning threatened several thousand Goan IT professionals living in Bengaluru. "He should be arrested immediately and externed for making such statements," BJP spokesperson Damodar Naik told reporters at a press conference at the BJP state headquarters on Friday. He also claimed that Deshpande should know that there are many Kannadigas who had made Goa their home and were living peacefully. "Do not misunderstand my statement, but ...
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Kannadiga versus Goan row: Goa BJP responds to 'threat' 17.4.2015 New Kerala: Karnataka
Read Full story of 'Kannadiga versus Goan row: Goa BJP responds to 'threat'' at newkerala.com.
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