-Economic and Political Weekly While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the everyday practice and experience of going to dysfunctional toilets, particularly by women. By analysing the practices and problems associated with toilet use from a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to situate the issue in the everyday lives...

-The Hindu New Delhi: In a move that spells relief for an estimated 40 lakh residents staying in Unauthorised Colonies and also that would deliver on a promise made by successive governments, but ever fulfilled, the Delhi Government on Tuesday set the ball rolling on regularisation of such colonies. Residents of 1,650 such colonies can apply for the registration of their respective properties soon. "In a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal...

-The Indian Express New Delhi: After many years of political bickering, distribution of provisional certificates and promises by parties to regularise them, 895 Unauthorised Colonies face another uncertain wait. A legal status for these colonies may be many more years away as the AAP government has decided to redo the whole process from the beginning. The Urban Development department has mooted a proposal to allow three agencies to redo the boundaries of...

-Down to Earth One-third of India's population are migrants, but the country is yet to make a policy or plan for them, says collaborative study report by Institute of Social Sciences and UNICEF As many as 309 million people, nearly a third of India's population, were migrants according to the 2001 Census. But the only ‘right' which they are able to exercise is the one that allows all citizens the right to...

-The Hindu There is little transparency in the regularisation of Unauthorised Colonies in Delhi Earlier this week, acting on behalf of the Delhi government, the Chief Minister wrote a letter to the President asking for a probe against the former Chief Minister, reportedly for "alleged irregularities in the regularisation of Unauthorised Colonies in Delhi". This follows the Delhi Lokayukta's finding in November 2013 that the "issuance of the PRC [provisional regularisation certificates]...