Tag: rehabilitation
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Urban Slums in India: Improving Redevelopment and Relocation Policies
Overall 6.5 crore of India’s urban population resides in slums. Notably, the majority of the slum population comprises the informal sector labor force who are employed in low-paying jobs. Due to the migration of people to urban areas in search of employment, slums spring up in Indian cities within a matter of days. With an…
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Rehabilitation of Women and Girls during the Pandemic
Information about the issue: On 31st August 2020, an SC order sought to clear the slums around railway tracks in Delhi within three months, without any policy for rehabilitation. As concerns were being raised on the procedure to be followed in this regard, in another order dated 14th September, 2020, the Court instructed the authorities…
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Support the Slum Dwellers Project
What is the issue? As per a senior government official, there are 750 slum clusters in Delhi, of which around 52 prominent ones are located close to railway tracks. The Supreme Court, on 31st August 2020, passed an Order in connection with the piling up of the waste along the railway tracks, wherein the Court…
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The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016: An Analysis
By Prateeksha Shrivastava, Faculty of Law, Lucknow University, Uttar Pradesh. Human trafficking is the trade of humans. Trade of humans is done to serve various purposes like forced labour, sexual slavery or for commercial social exploitation. Human trafficking is also done for forced labour, slavery, extraction of organs or even for forced marriages. It can be done…
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Commentary on Land Acquisition Ordinance
By Piyush Jain, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. There has been a pursuance of several changes, according to the evolution of the demands and the requisites of modern day industrial and developmental goals. One of such has been sought by Narendra Modi government, which has tried to bring a healthy transition to present Land Acquisition,…