'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.
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