India, Aug. 3 -- Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta and urban development minister Ashish Sood on Saturday inspected EWS (economically weaker sections) flats in Sultanpuri, north-west Delhi to review their maintenance, current condition, and potential for allotting them to slum dwellers. Gupta has announced that the government will renovate 50,000 old and dilapidated flats built for EWS over the past few decades and allot them to slum dwellers

The inspections were carried out a day after Gupta directed all government departments, the Indian Railways, and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) that no slum dwellings should be demolished in the city, and promised that all future removals, if unavoidable, would be accompanied by advance rehabi...