27 February 2013
Thanks to Mumbai’s land reform act, the very rich and very poor have become next-door neighbours India’s tallest buildings, the missile-shaped Imperial Towers, rise up through the smoggy haze of the nation’s financial capital, Mumbai, like a shimmering vision of Oz. The most dramatic view of the towers comes from gazing at them down Falkland [...]
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27 February 2013
NGOs — the National Alliance for People’s Movements (NAPM) and the People’s Budget Initiative (PBI) — have called for changes in the budgeting system of central and state governments that would ensure equitable allocations for all sections of the society. They have said that there is a need of a progressive fiscal policy in the [...]
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27 February 2013
As you climb the rickety wooden stairs of Simplex building at Grant Road (East), amid smells of food, sweat, dust, urine and cosmetics, you pass pimps and stout madams seated on wooden stools outside the worn doors of closet-sized rooms. This 70-year-old, three-storey structure is one of the oldest prostitution hubs in the city. Inside [...]
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27 February 2013
An international NGO slammed the Indian government on Thursday for the grossly inadequate protection and humiliating treatment of child victims of sexual assault in the country. In an 82-page report, ‘Breaking the Silence: Child Sexual Abuse in India‘, Human Rights Watch said most of these victims face humiliation during medical tests and often have to [...]
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24 January 2013
Mumbai Smiles is an international non-profit organisation that works with underprivileged communities living in the slums of Mumbai. The challenge is to rebuild a society, and Mumbai Smiles has constructed innovative and sustainable projects to tackle various development challenges — promoting livelihoods for income-generation and poverty alleviation, education projects to eradicate illiteracy, and health campaigns [...]
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24 January 2013
Leaders meeting in Davos must take concrete action to reverse rising inequality – and finally put the poorest 99% first As we enter another year of global uncertainty, government and business leaders are heading to the World Economic Forum in Davos as its own Global Risk report (pdf) identifies growing inequality for the second year as one [...]
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24 January 2013
In 2010, nearly 830 million people around the world lived in slums, up from 777 million in the year 2000,according to the United Nations. The New York Times describes Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, as a “cliché of Indian misery,” with approximately 1 million slum dwellers living on 8 percent of the land in the western city of [...]
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24 January 2013
In 2008, Aarti Naik had dropped out of 10th grade at her Bombay Municipal Corporation school in Mulund West, Mumbai, and faced a bleak future of a lifetime as a servant. “My family condition was very poor,” Naik told India-West by telephone from Mumbai. “My BMC class was one teacher with 18 students and I [...]
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26 December 2012
To understand land use pattern in the city, NGO Yuva conducted a study titled ‘Ground Truthing’ in the P/North ward Malad (West), with a population of 9.58 lakh, to assess the results of the development plan (DP). Conducted in October, the study provides an understanding of land use reservation and implementation in the city in [...]
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26 December 2012
Citing unhygienic disposal of waste as the reason, Vanashakti, a non-government organisation, on Monday, filed a public interest litigation demanding the closure of the Kanjurmarg dumping ground. Disposing of waste on the landfill site is in direct violation of the coastal regulation zone notification of 2011 and the Municipal Solid Waste rules, 2000, the petition [...]
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