'World Bank Agenda Instrumental in Poor Eviction in Cities'
The new DMK government in Tamil Nadu has released a draft policy on Resettlement and Rehabilitation, which gives legitimacy and structure to an ongoing process of uprooting urban poor and relocating them to far off places. Kishore Kumar, a researcher on state informality and peri-urban development, explains how the state deviated from providing good in-situ housing for resettling people, and the role of the World Bank in cornering the already marginalised urban poor.
Get the latest reports & analysis with people's perspective on Protests, movements & deep analytical videos, discussions of the current affairs in your Telegram app. Subscribe to NewsClick's Telegram channel & get Real-Time updates on stories, as they get published on our website.
