MUMBAI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farhana Shaikh used to recoil in disgust when she went to the communal toilet in Dharavi. But since the pandemic struck, efforts to fight COVID-19 have ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girl cousins had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve ...

Slum inhabitants are living in spaces that are overcrowded, unplanned, and without equitable access to transportation, water, and sanitation. Without the infrastructure or the resources for household ...

Act came into effect on November 1, 1974, and the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board was formed in July 1975 to rehabilitate ...

AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials keen on ...

MUMBAI, India — The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — A new census report says one in six people in Indian cities live in some 100,000 sprawling slums with conditions “unfit for human habitation.” The statistics are India’s first ...

Only a quarter of Ganganagar qualifies as a slum. It has been classified as a slum on paper just to avail redevelopment funds heek-by-jowl homes betray signs of comfortable lifestyles in this crucial ...

The slum in east Mumbai has about 50,000 residents and a single toilet building, with 10 pay toilets for men and eight for women -- two are broken. With the line up to an hour even at 5 a.m., and the ...

Residents use a public tap to fill their water containers in Hyderabad, India, last month. on March 18. (Mahesh Kumar A./AP) India’s lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus is laying bare ...