--- Vinay Baindur <yanivbin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> VIJAYAWADA: The civic authorities have started the
> process of clearing the
> river bunds of illegal encroachments
...
> The administration has drawn up plans to
> rehabilitate them in pucca houses
> under the Jawarharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
> Mission. Land acquisition
> process in two upland villages of the district has
> already been initiated.
=====
10 years ago people in riverfront slums in vijaywada
had got door-numbers. precious security-of-tenure
tripe that the housing rights discourse had thrown up
for the DfID projects to grow into national slum
policy. Vijaywada had a DfID city-wide slum project.
the door-numbers were on small furniture that could be
salvaged when the floods washed away the homes with
doors.
Hyderabad, Vizag, Cuttack, Kochi, Kolkatta all had
DfID city-wide ngo-mediated community-participatory
slum projects with slum development on waterfronts
(and on fragile hill slopes, in low-lying areas, under
high-tension lines, next to railway lines). indore
also had a DfID city-wide slum project. its riverfront
slum development was civic disaster and had taken
lives, including of small children. but it was
expensively dressed up as best-practice technical
model to go out and whore in style.
Other cities got picked up without city-wide
slum-project investments, with just crumbs for ngos
and experts. (notice how, at the bollywood-do about
pushta, kt ravindran rooted for national slum policy
and kiran bedi lamented the loss of the riverfront
slum development works done by ngos like hers).
the erstwhile undevelopable sites, unlocked for
development by humane slum development, are now ripe
for bigger profiting and on the hot air of inclusivity
tripe are already afloat tehkhand-style
pilot-projects, dharavi-style mega-projects, etc (with
plenty more for the cmnty-participatory ngo-experts to
mediate in those). and fresh land acquisitions for
housing for the poor under jnurm have also begun, says
the vijaywada report.
the two-in-one mission is mop-up.
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...
> VIJAYAWADA: The civic authorities have started the
> process of clearing the
> river bunds of illegal encroachments
...
> The administration has drawn up plans to
> rehabilitate them in pucca houses
> under the Jawarharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
> Mission. Land acquisition
> process in two upland villages of the district has
> already been initiated.
=====
10 years ago people in riverfront slums in vijaywada
had got door-numbers. precious security-of-tenure
tripe that the housing rights discourse had thrown up
for the DfID projects to grow into national slum
policy. Vijaywada had a DfID city-wide slum project.
the door-numbers were on small furniture that could be
salvaged when the floods washed away the homes with
doors.
Hyderabad, Vizag, Cuttack, Kochi, Kolkatta all had
DfID city-wide ngo-mediated community-participatory
slum projects with slum development on waterfronts
(and on fragile hill slopes, in low-lying areas, under
high-tension lines, next to railway lines). indore
also had a DfID city-wide slum project. its riverfront
slum development was civic disaster and had taken
lives, including of small children. but it was
expensively dressed up as best-practice technical
model to go out and whore in style.
Other cities got picked up without city-wide
slum-project investments, with just crumbs for ngos
and experts. (notice how, at the bollywood-do about
pushta, kt ravindran rooted for national slum policy
and kiran bedi lamented the loss of the riverfront
slum development works done by ngos like hers).
the erstwhile undevelopable sites, unlocked for
development by humane slum development, are now ripe
for bigger profiting and on the hot air of inclusivity
tripe are already afloat tehkhand-style
pilot-projects, dharavi-style mega-projects, etc (with
plenty more for the cmnty-participatory ngo-experts to
mediate in those). and fresh land acquisitions for
housing for the poor under jnurm have also begun, says
the vijaywada report.
the two-in-one mission is mop-up.
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