This report presents case studies that highlight how ADB's teams are working together to design innovative urban projects across the Asia and Pacific region that leverage its value-added services and support
Maharashtra's draft state housing policy (dshp) is ready. Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced it on November 1, 2006. Prepared in a record three-month period by a taskforce headedby the state
<p>Titagarh's slum upgrading experience demonstrates that social pressure and lobbying, particularly by women's groups, can be very effective in controlling rents, even when there is no legal contract between tenants and landlords.</p>
On December 3, 2005, prime minister Manmohan Singh launched "the single largest initiative of the Government of India for a planned development of our cities'. The programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (<font class="UCASE">jnnurm</font>), acknowledged that urbanisation was a "relentless process' that had caused an acute urban crisis.
The CDP provides both a perspective and vision for the development of a city. It presents the current stage of city’s development, sets out directions of change, identifies thrust areas, suggests alternate
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Proximity to workplace determines housing decisions of slum dwellers, finds a new study
Builders may 'get big bonanza in Dharavi
Rehabilitation authority to ignore controversial projects
BWSSB already wants to close public fountains in Bangalore city as the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike asn't paid up its dues of Rs 160 crore.Will GBWASP attend to the water needs of the poor? Right now,
When <font class='UCASE'>prashant krishnan, vinita garg, aditya jha, gurpreet singh</font> and <font class='UCASE'>neeraj kumar</font> set out to map Mayapuri s drainage,they had no inkling that new lessons on sewerage would be in the offing
