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It was approved in Feb 2007, intended to be executed within 2 years. It was cancelled in 2016. They spent 5.79 crores on it. Features: multistory building on 3.22 acre plot. community work space exhibition and sale complex meant for mritshilpi, sholashilpi and saajshilpi for 528 families relocated them temporarily to warehouses near kumortuli 200 dwellings and 104 work units 170 dwellings and 79 work units allotted in 2010 2014 -> some artisans had refused to move. some homes

Devi Vijay Durga Puja Four days in the lunar month of Ashwin (sept-oct) published in 2018 book claims that there is "a dearth of research on the social world of the mritshilpis." "precarity in terms of orderws, flow of labor and raw matierials." "during peak season more than half the workforce in an artisanal studio would be constituted of temporary and casual workers." social organization of the mritshilpis Kumortuli as simultaneously a space of commerce, residence, apprenti

Participation, Reciprocity, and Empowerment in the Practice of Participatory Research Main Ideas – Carl Wilmsen, “Participation, Reciprocity, and Empowerment in the Practice of Participatory Research” (2015) Core argument:  Empowerment in participatory research depends on reciprocity , mutual trust, exchange, and benefit between researchers and communities. Problem:  Participation alone can be tokenistic or extractive  when researchers retain control or fail to share power an

Authors of Paper: Chaitali Sinha ( chai_sinha@yahoo.co.in ), Tuhina Mazumdar, Supriya Dutta, Shrabani Saha (Lincoln   International   Business School ,  Lincoln ,  England ,   ssaha@lincoln.ac.uk ) The study is grounded in firsthand accounts from craftspeople  working in Kumortuli (North Kolkata)  and Kalighat Poto Para (South Kolkata) , using questionnaires + interviews , carried out before Durgotsav (2021–2022)  in September–October . Durga Puja as an annual “city-making” e

"Housing within a city constitutes the majority of its built form. The quality of housing defines the image and the qualitative experience of a city. Despite this obvious connection, state housing policies and the consequent regulatory frameworks often prescribe architecture for housing unmindful of the living environments they tend to create." UDAAN How does urban policy and state regulation affect housing? Especially in underdeveloped places like Kumortuli. How does state p