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#Gurugram could make room for everyone through basic provisions: covered roadside shelters, seating, drinking water, accessible toilets and open spaces. These can be mandated in Occupation Certificates. A city belongs to the people who work in it, too.
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In Gurugram, domestic workers, guards, delivery workers and other working-class residents keep the city running. Yet they often need permission to use its spaces, or face unwelcome stares. Who is the city designed for? Read here:
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Gurugram’s working class is rarely thrown out of the city. Yet the city’s design decides who belongs. In a landscape of private housing complexes and roads, those who keep the city running often struggle to claim its public spaces, writes Ankush Pal
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Bela Estate, Chilla Khadar, Pul Mithai, Madrasi Camp, Jailorwala Bagh. Across Delhi, reports from informal settlements document large-scale voter deletions and missing names in the SIR, reports @dharspeaks
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Across Delhi, from the Yamuna floodplains to JJ clusters, residents of informal settlements have faced different forms of voter exclusion. What connects these cases is the precarity of the places they call home, reports @dharspeaks
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From Bela Estate, Chilla Khadar, Pul Mithai & more, reports from Delhi’s informal settlements reveal different forms of voter exclusion. The correlation between precarious housing and electoral deletions is hard to ignore, reports @dharspeaks
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At Delhi’s Bela Estate, officials deleted 728 of 729 voters from the electoral rolls. The case points to a wider pattern across informal settlements, where voter deletions threaten people’s political rights and access to welfare, writes @dharspeaks
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Voter deletions can mean more than losing the right to vote. In Delhi’s informal settlements, they can also affect access to rations, pensions and housing rehabilitation schemes that rely on voter cards and proof of residence, writes @dharspeaks
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From Chilla Khadar to Madrasi Camp, reports from Delhi’s informal settlements reveal different forms of voter exclusion. The link between informality and voter deletions may be difficult to prove, but the pattern demands attention, writes @dharspeaks
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The Brahmaputra Riverfront may look new, but the river’s relationship with the city runs much deeper. Purba Barua asks what this makeover leaves out: people’s access to it, and the ecological costs of reshaping the land-water relationship.
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The Brahmaputra riverfront reflects a larger shift in Guwahati’s idea of development. Roads and beautification projects offer political visibility, while basic infrastructure for water and waste management remains less visible, writes Purba Barua,
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Guwahati’s 1.2-km Brahmaputra riverfront was transformed in just six months, with landscaped gardens, walkways and decorative lighting. But as Purba Barua asks, whose riverfront is it, and who gets to feel at home there?
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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
