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Delhi’s Draft Master Plan 2041 received over 25,000 suggestions on informal housing and livelihoods. Where did they go? Into a black box. Public consultation means little if people’s demands go unanswered, write Matthew Idicula and Shoubhik Chatterjee.
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Delhi’s Master Plan 2047 offers regularisation to unauthorised colonies, but only in-situ rehabilitation to slum and JJ cluster residents. The plan draws a line between whose homes deserve legal recognition and whose don’t. Read here:
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Delhi recognises street vendors and waste pickers in its Master Plan 2047. But recognition offers little security when plans for pedestrianisation and multi-utility zones could threaten their livelihoods, write Matthew Idicula and Shoubhik Chatterjee.
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(1/6) More than 37 journalists detained in the country over anti-CEC protests, finds a Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report.
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(5/6) “At least five journalists were struck by police, according to their own accounts or their outlets.” delhipolice #jantarmantarprotests #delhipolice
(6/6) The Editors Guild of India (EGi) has condemned these detentions. #delhipolice #jantarmantarprotests
(1/9) When all ways to prevent protests or disrupt them have failed, Delhi Police has done the only thing they could — denotify #JantarMantar as a protest venue.
(8/9)In this piece, @smrutibombay writes how
resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national; simultaneously repressed, as we see in Delhi today. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. questionofcities.org/halla-b…
(9/9)The problem with designated spaces, is that they are often far from the seat of power and isolated enough for protesting voices to reach authorities or the public. Streets have always been the ultimate public spaces for dissenters and protesters.
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#Delhi’s urban expansion has turned hundreds of rural villages into “urban villages”. But in #Rawta, the transition has brought little improvement to everyday life, as villagers struggle for water and sewage water in their farms, reports @dharspeaks
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More than 300 villages have been reclassified from rural to urban as #Delhi expanded. But what does urbanisation mean when land is absorbed into the city without compensation or better living conditions? #Rawta’s villagers ask that, reports @dharspea
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