Let me appreciate you for your frank reporting to UN on the urban slums. The demolitions by the government will only result in worsening the conditions of the poor in the city. Instead of demolitons state will have discuss on how security of tenure can be granted to the slum dwellers and how affordable housing can be provided to the poor and the neo immigrants...
To you, my middle class friends, the problem is not slums but why slums are created ? The answer lies not in demolitions but in building an economic system which is just both in the city and in the country side..
The UN has no business to comment or prepare reports on Indian slums since they are least equipped to even understand the problem. They may spend their time writing about Pakistani and Bangladeshi living conditions. This is a growing and increasingly alarming tendency to pick out India on human rights issues. One can see it everywhere and it's time our PM recognised this American led malaise.
is this un guy crazy or something.. i mean, slums are illegal. Would it be tolerated in some western country.. i mean how these guys apply stupid conclusions on us in the name of human rights and secularism... just ignore this senseless person. i know to render people homeless is bad. its bad to see so many of our people living in slums.. but in the first place they should not have been allowed to come up.. ok then where do these people go.. they would have to save money to buy a home rather than waste it on alcohol and dance bars and gambling
I am amazed what UN has to do with Slum demolition in Mumbai and Delhi.
The Slums demolished are not created on free land. It was land that was purchased by individuals or civic body plots which are reserved for the facilities for the people who pay taxes.
Does UN mean to say that tax payers not to be considered for their money beacuse someone puts lsum there!
The report creator is seems Indian origin. It seems that the natural interest in Indian matters has reflected in report rather than the fair non-judgemental reporting.
I would request Miloon Kothari to travel one week in Mumbai local train and lets see if he sustains the unhyginic air from the slum area. I bet, he will never write any report.
Mumbai Authorities are strict on demolitions of slums after 1995. Its fair and profesional act.
No nation, city or human in the world can bear forcefull occupation on legal owners land.
Mr. Kothari, if you so lighthened and touched, please come forward, take one slum dewller person and give your flats one room to live. then talk this kind of non-sense report.
By giving such a report it is sure that UN does not want india to develop.
UN should understand that the slum population has come and settled in the government land / private land. If the slum concept is encouraged then more and more people will come to cities and create slums thereby spoiling the beauty of the cities and they would demand an alternative site which would lead to a dangerous situation. UN should understand the reality before giving such a report instead of such awkward reports.
I think it is really absurd to say that the govt has demolished the slums in Mumbai. It is right to do this as the the land belongs to the govt. and it is illegal to use this land. Who is Mr. Kothari to say that the govt ha done a wrong thing. these are people who like to tarnish the image of our country in world. It is not they are homeless the govt has done lot to them and more over the govt has given alternative land for these people. I really appreciate the work carried out by Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh - the cheif minister. Great Job done sir.
Who are these people who show concern about poor people ? What do they know about our country ? Where were they when Americans bombed Japan, Vietnam, Afganistan, Iraq... What about Bosnia ? Are they blind ? May be they are mad!
We have a set of crackpots sitting there and judging countries with blind folds!
After US denial of VISA to an elected chief minister ,this report is direst interferance in internal matter of India. Indian govt should strongly react to this.
