Voluntary Association for Social Action - VASA

01/09/2013

Sanitation and hygiene emerge as serious concerns in the Delhi Human Development Report 2013. While 90% of households in Delhi have access to latrines within their homes, 7.2% use public toilets and the rest defecate in the open.

30/08/2013

The Census 2011 data which is yet to be released, speaks of an astounding 264% increase in slum population in and around Hyderabad. The municipality area now has 5.07 lakh slum households with 22.7 lakh dwellers.

06/08/2013

Delhi BJP today promised flats, cheap electricity and ration cards to 30 lakh slum dwellers if it is voted to power in the upcoming Assembly election.

23/07/2013

Mattanchery, the historic trade city that once thrived, has almost become the capital of urban poverty in the state. According to the 2001 census, Mattanchery has 859 homeless people per sq km, while the average number of the homeless in the state is 20 people per sq km.

20/07/2013

While the Government of Maharashtra has notified that slum dwellers settled prior to 1995 will be eligible under various slum development and rehabilitation programs, there is not enough clarity on those who settled in the city post-1995.

Identifying some key issues related to slums in Pimpri Chinchwad area, the draft environment status report for the year 2012-13 has said that living standards in slum areas should be improved.

14/07/2013

She wants to bring a different sort of change in Dharavi, the second biggest slum in Asia. Meet Martina Spies, an Austrian architect who is holding a unique exhibition at Mumbai's Studio X at Kitab Mahal.

14/07/2013

Slums represent a survival strategy in the face of insufficient & affordable housing and lack of tenure security

12/07/2013

VASCO: Chief minister ManoharParrikar has assured the residents of Zuarinagar that the slum will cleaned up and developed with proper housing facilities, a market complex and a play ground for...