Friction between the tenant and the landlord often result in long-drawn out legal battles. A new law is meant to govern the tenant-landlord equation through effective and faster dispute resolution.
Lakshman and his family, who belong to the Dhegu Megu SC community of Kodambal in Karnataka and worship Goddess Mariyamma, dance and whip themselves to earn a living in Mumbai.
Gopal Gupta, a vegetable vendor in Kalyan who tested Covid positive in March, spent nearly Rs 5 lakhs on private healthcare and still lost him later in a public hospital.
Self-development is often touted as a model for better urban housing. It is considered an antidote to builder-led redevelopment or resettlement. But financing and sustaining a large self-development project has proven unsuccessful.
In 2019, researchers at the Azim Premji University (APU) proposed the creation of a National Urban Employment Guarantee Programme that addresses the problem of unemployment, underemployment and low wages in the informal urban workforce. The
With no income and no food for the past three months, the sex workers of Kamathipura are desperate to go back to work, even if it gets them just a cup of tea and bread!