URBAN POOR

As Golibar residents wait for rehabilitation, citizens wonder what’s holding the government back.

Interview with Debi Goenka, Executive Trustee, Conservation Action Trust.
Citizen Matters spoke to him about the threat to mangroves in Mumbai.

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.

Art exists to record and reflect the times we live in. Here are three poets who have lent poetic expression to the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.

There is no decentralised urban governance in India, but a new index conceived by a city-based NGO, can help unpack why.

Urbanisation affects women’s mental health in various ways. It is tougher for women from marginalised sections of the society. Here’s how.

There has been a significant increase in street vending during the pandemic. But the hurdles these vendors face have not reduced.

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 their livelihoods and income compromised, people’s food insecurity will only magnify.

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!