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Coronavirus: Naveen Patnaik Announces Rs 100-crore Package For Urban Poor Families In Odisha
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a Rs 100-crore package to provide livelihood support to around 4.5 lakh urban poor families affected by the lockdown imposed across the country due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Why Toilets Remain Aspirational For India’s Urban Poor Despite Subsidies
The total subisidy extended to households thus is Rs 12,000, which is only 35 percent of the construction cost a toilet.
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In Kerala, Urban Homeless May Soon Get Shelters
Thiruvananthapuram: Homeless poor, wandering and sleeping in city streets, will soon get a shelter in Kerala, with the state government drawing up a sustainable housing programme for them. As a prelude to the launch of the housing scheme, the all-women self-help group, Kudumabshree would conduct a survey of the shelterless poor living in urban area...
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Uttar Pradesh's Urban Poor To Get Free Power Connections
Lucknow: Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders living in urban areas of Uttar Pradesh will be given free electricity connections, a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided on Thursday. Millions of poor people are likely to benefit from this decision. The Cabinet, in its 12th meeting since the Bharatiya Janata Party g...
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20 Lakh Houses For Urban Poor Approved, Says M Venkaiah Naidu
At least 20 lakh affordable houses for the poor in 4,720 cities and towns will be built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (Urban), Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said today.
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No Place For The Poor In India's Smart Cities, Say Campaigners
Mumbai: An ambitious government plan to upgrade the cities risks further marginalising poor and minority communities and hastening slum evictions, while failing to address the reasons villagers move to urban areas, campaigners said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart Cities Mission aims to modernise 100 cities by 2020 with high-speed internet, ...
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Over 2 Lakh Houses Constructed For Urban Poor In Past 2 Years: Government
Over 2.23 lakh houses have been constructed for the urban poor under various housing schemes of the Centre in the past two years, Lok Sabha was informed today.
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Recent Talk Of Urban Poverty Shoots Right Past This Huge Point
It is not difficult to see why our ersatz millennials are convinced that it is not enough to merely turn up at work, but that to be able to move up wearing that unaffordable designer kit is uncompromisingly essential towards securing their aspired future.
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Rajasthan's New Order Will Put 3 Lakh Children Out Of Private Schools
Education is the right of every child, but a new order of the Rajasthan government may shut the doors of private schools and a brighter future to nearly 3 lakh children in the state.
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Urban poor in India: Cause of concern
In what is being described as India's numbers of shame, a UNICEF report has highlighted what is one of its worst kept secrets: the state of the country's urban poor. Behind the glitzy glass facade buildings, children are dying of malnourishment and education is a distant dream.
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Bringing comfort to the homes of the urban poor
Jon Rainbow, a US national, sits with a group of women in a slum, intently discussing floor plans for a housing project. For the women sitting with folders strewn all around them, this is no ordinary project -- it is the realisation of their dream of living in a decent house.Taking time away from his busy schedule, Mahila Milan Pune -- the NGO that...
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India Matters: Homeless in Hyderabad
He was probably a rag picker, or maybe not. The stench of the garbage was incredible but the homeless man was sleeping soundly. We were near LB Nagar (on) Sagar Road in Hyderabad. Two other sewer pipes showed signs of being in use by homeless persons. They would return later at night. Clearly, the degradation of this experience would fail to give t...
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Coronavirus: Naveen Patnaik Announces Rs 100-crore Package For Urban Poor Families In Odisha
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a Rs 100-crore package to provide livelihood support to around 4.5 lakh urban poor families affected by the lockdown imposed across the country due to the coronavirus outbreak.
-
Why Toilets Remain Aspirational For India’s Urban Poor Despite Subsidies
The total subisidy extended to households thus is Rs 12,000, which is only 35 percent of the construction cost a toilet.
-
In Kerala, Urban Homeless May Soon Get Shelters
Thiruvananthapuram: Homeless poor, wandering and sleeping in city streets, will soon get a shelter in Kerala, with the state government drawing up a sustainable housing programme for them. As a prelude to the launch of the housing scheme, the all-women self-help group, Kudumabshree would conduct a survey of the shelterless poor living in urban area...
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Uttar Pradesh's Urban Poor To Get Free Power Connections
Lucknow: Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders living in urban areas of Uttar Pradesh will be given free electricity connections, a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided on Thursday. Millions of poor people are likely to benefit from this decision. The Cabinet, in its 12th meeting since the Bharatiya Janata Party g...
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20 Lakh Houses For Urban Poor Approved, Says M Venkaiah Naidu
At least 20 lakh affordable houses for the poor in 4,720 cities and towns will be built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (Urban), Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said today.
-
No Place For The Poor In India's Smart Cities, Say Campaigners
Mumbai: An ambitious government plan to upgrade the cities risks further marginalising poor and minority communities and hastening slum evictions, while failing to address the reasons villagers move to urban areas, campaigners said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart Cities Mission aims to modernise 100 cities by 2020 with high-speed internet, ...
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Over 2 Lakh Houses Constructed For Urban Poor In Past 2 Years: Government
Over 2.23 lakh houses have been constructed for the urban poor under various housing schemes of the Centre in the past two years, Lok Sabha was informed today.
-
Recent Talk Of Urban Poverty Shoots Right Past This Huge Point
It is not difficult to see why our ersatz millennials are convinced that it is not enough to merely turn up at work, but that to be able to move up wearing that unaffordable designer kit is uncompromisingly essential towards securing their aspired future.
-
Rajasthan's New Order Will Put 3 Lakh Children Out Of Private Schools
Education is the right of every child, but a new order of the Rajasthan government may shut the doors of private schools and a brighter future to nearly 3 lakh children in the state.
-
Urban poor in India: Cause of concern
In what is being described as India's numbers of shame, a UNICEF report has highlighted what is one of its worst kept secrets: the state of the country's urban poor. Behind the glitzy glass facade buildings, children are dying of malnourishment and education is a distant dream.
-
Bringing comfort to the homes of the urban poor
Jon Rainbow, a US national, sits with a group of women in a slum, intently discussing floor plans for a housing project. For the women sitting with folders strewn all around them, this is no ordinary project -- it is the realisation of their dream of living in a decent house.Taking time away from his busy schedule, Mahila Milan Pune -- the NGO that...
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India Matters: Homeless in Hyderabad
He was probably a rag picker, or maybe not. The stench of the garbage was incredible but the homeless man was sleeping soundly. We were near LB Nagar (on) Sagar Road in Hyderabad. Two other sewer pipes showed signs of being in use by homeless persons. They would return later at night. Clearly, the degradation of this experience would fail to give t...
