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 ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has begun surveying commercial slums, is considering recovering property tax from floors in slums where commercial activities are being carried out.

Mumbai: The BMC's survey to assess commercial units in slum areas aims to bring more of these establishments into the tax net, potentially generating around Rs 350 crores in additional revenue.

Mumbai: The BMC on Thursday said while it has decided to apply property tax to all commercial establishments in slum areas and a survey is also being conducted by the tax assessment and collection ...

MUMBAI: Bandra East slum residents protest relocation to Malad, fearing loss of livelihoods and inadequate living conditions in new SRA buildings. MUMBAI: On Sunday, the residents of a slum ...

Affiliated to Communist party, the activist was active in fighting for the rights of the original inhabitants of Navi Mumbai, slum dwellers. Veteran activist and founder-president of the Ghar Hakk ...

The authorities said that the completion of door-to-door surveys of over 50,000 tenements was a record in the history of the Mumbai Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), considering the complexity ...

The Slum Rehabilitation Authority in Mumbai is doing more harm than good, yet there is talk of adopting the “sra model” in other states as well. An alternative is to take slum lands and parts of other ...

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 ...

Learning through art, though, can provide a safe space for ... However, children from rural areas, slums, urban poor families, scheduled castes, tribal communities, and other disadvantaged groups ...