The government can generate revenue if these structures are regularised," said Alam, who said that the Mumbai Regional Town Planning Act should be amended to regulate vertical slums."Law should be ...

In the shadows of Mumbai's gleaming skyscrapers lie vast swathes of slums ... instills a sense of ownership and responsibility among slum dwellers, fostering a culture of self-reliance and ...

Mumbai: Mhada has submitted plans for the redevelopment of three slums on its land in partnership with the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). SRA CEO Mahendra Kalyankar said the authority has ...

On Tuesday, ports and fisheries minister Nitesh Rane wrote to the municipal commissioner, demanding that the reclaimed land ...

The East Indian community and residents of Christian Gaon in Kurla yesterday decided to protest the municipality’s notice labelling the old gaothan a “slum”, and have begun collecting ...

Cempaka School students and teachers say they had a heartbreaking time when distributing food to slum ... the poor in Mumbai. “We got a first-hand look at the extent of poverty among slum ...

MUMBAI, March 24 (Reuters) - Multiple cooking gas cylinders in a truck caught fire and exploded on Monday in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded, squalid ...

The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) has completed over 50,000 door-to-door surveys — marking the largest slum rehabilitation survey in Mumbai’s history. This milestone, achieved on ...

Mumbai: On Saturday, slum dwellers from Worli's Markandeshwar Nagar came out opposing the BMC's proposal for the widening of a road that would affect their homes. Slum dwellers launched a ...

Urban cities in the country including Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad are showing a dip in the number of infections and cases. BMC Sero survey indicates that 57% from slums in three wards in Mumbai ...

Mumbai: Hundreds of tribals from Aarey, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Gorai and from various Gaothans in Mumbai gathered at Azad Maidan on Friday protesting against the non-implementation of Forest ...

The existing property, the Hinduja House, is a ground plus five-storey building that overlooks the Arabian Sea in Worli, and was built in the 1980s. The six-floor Hinduja House overlooking the ...