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Slum fire: 166 families in Noida turn homeless in just a few hours

The Times of India 13 Apr 2021

... in the slum cluster of Behlolpur ... Outfits like the HindRise Social Welfare Foundation, Shri Chitragupta Sabha Trust, Active NGO group, and activists like Anoop Khanna and locals from nearby Chotpur colony have come forward and given the slum dwellers food, clothes and beddings.

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Mumbai Police start virtual meetings to address issues

Hindustan Times 13 Apr 2021

... groups’ representatives, school-colleges principles, members of religious prayers halls/trusts, local civic corporation officials, community leaders, social workers, NGO members, members of labourers groups, migrants and members of slum and Muhalla committees, etc.

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South Asian governments must ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

Amnesty 13 Apr 2021

As vaccination programmes have commenced across South Asia, groups including slum dwellers, Dalits, ethnic minorities, workers including labourers, daily wage earners, sanitation workers, garment workers and tea plantation workers, people in rural areas, prisoners, and internally ...

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Rotary Club of Pune Amanora donates Rs 25 lakh to educate 1,300 children in slums

Indian Express 11 Apr 2021

The Rotary Club of Pune Amanora (RCPA), supported by the Kubota Group, has committed a sum of Rs 25 lakh to ensure that 1,300 children from THE slums of Pune (PMC and PCMC) complete one academic year. The RCPA initiative will see educators provide slum children with ... Express Group.

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Assess actor Sachiin Joshi’s medical condition: Bombay HC to JJ hospital

Hindustan Times 09 Apr 2021

The single-judge bench of justice Prakash Naik, while hearing the criminal application filed by ED against the special court order on Friday, was informed that Joshi had played a vital role in getting consent from societies and slum dwellers for slum rehabilitation projects for Omkar Group.

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Minor scribes bring major change

Business Line 05 Apr 2021

Akshat has been writing about child labour in a children’s magazine being produced by minors living in slums in the town ... In January 2019, ChildFund teamed up with its local civil society partner Saarthi to train 120 children in the 7-14 year age group living in 30 Firozabad slums on reporting and writing on children’s issues.

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Wadala plot changes: SRA officers under ED lens

The Times of India 05 Apr 2021

Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) officials manipulated the list of on the developed by three times in five years ... ED claimed that the list of eligible residents of Anand Nagar slum was manipulated last in 2016, just after Omkar Group took over the project ... ED accused Omkar of illegally diverting the money to its other group companies.

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Mumbai: SRA tweaked slumdwellers’ list thrice in 5 years in Omkar’s Wadala project, says ED

The Times of India 05 Apr 2021

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Omkar Group’s promoters and actor named in ED chargesheet in Mumbai

The Times of India 02 Apr 2021

Omkar Group promoters allegedly took Rs 410 crore from Yes Bank to construct rehabilitation buildings for slumdwellers under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme at Wadala but diverted the money to their other group companies. Joshi allegedly helped Omkar Group for the layering of Rs 87 crore.

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Yes Bank case: ED files prosecution complaint against Omkar Developers, actor

Hindustan Times 01 Apr 2021

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed before the special PMLA court a prosecution complaint against real estate group Omkar Developers promoters Babulal Varma, Kamal Kishore Gupta, actor Sachiin Joshi, and others in ₹410 crore Yes Bank loan fraud and money laundering case.

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PC-1 of housing apartments at Alipur Farash approved

Dawn 31 Mar 2021

... in slums of F-6 and F-7, who will be shifted to the apartments ... They, however, said the upcoming scheme is not related to allotment of plots rather state of the art apartments will be allotted to slum dwellers and people belonging to low income group against nominal charges.

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Embroidery lessons come to aid of jobless primary schoolteacher

The Telegraph India 30 Mar 2021

Women across age groups, whose livelihood has taken a hit during the Covid pandemic — some of who live in slums — are getting three months’ training in embroidery, using sewing machines and tailoring so they can earn a living. Calcutta Rescue started the project in January and aims to train 100 women in batches of 20 by 2021 ... .

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In Brazil, moms are bearing the brunt of pandemic's blow

Journal Review 28 Mar 2021

Maria de Lourdes do Carmo, coordinator of a group that offers help to informal ... In hindsight, she finds the title and plot – “I Just Want to be Happy,” about a group of slum dwellers chasing their dreams but finding prejudice and a staggering lack of opportunity — to be foreboding.

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In Brazil, moms are bearing the brunt of pandemic’s blow

Wtop 28 Mar 2021

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Red Cross Red Crescent Movement Notes Deep and Pervasive

Beijing News 25 Mar 2021

The plan, the group says, is "designed to support and extend COVID-19 immunization campaigns so that marginalized and isolated groups - including people living in conflict zones, migrants and displaced people, people living in urban slums, and isolated communities in non-crisis affected countries - can access vaccines.".