5,000 families protest slum razing

Submitted by rummykhan on Wed, 2010-06-30 11:57

OVER 5,000 families from the eastern suburbs of Mumbai are on dharna since mid-May after 400 hutments in Annabhau Sathenagar Basti near Mankhurd were razed on orders of the additional collector.

Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
Author: 
Nidhi Jamwal
thesaurus: 
Environment
Mumbai
Slums
Slum Demolition
Mark Content Private(Internal): 
External URL: 
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/1242
Main Type: 
dte