Ircduc

The Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities is a community-centric inform

The IRCDUC is a community-centric information hub designed to educate and empower the deprived urban communities

Introduction

The primary objective of the centre is to enhance the capacities of the community leaders, enabling them to assert for their right to adequate housing. The centre seeks to collect, collate and disseminate the information about various government laws, policies and scheme

s that are instrumental in ensuring adequate housing for the deprived urban communities. The centre also engages in facilitating a community-centric policy analysis process to identify the various gaps in the existing policies related to the urban housing programme. It further evolves pro-poor policy recommendations by producing evidence based citizens report. The resource centre is also a platform for the leaders of the deprived urban communities to share their issues, exchange ideas and reflect on probable strategies that can enable them to assert for the right to adequate housing and urban spaces. Our Strategies:

Enhancing the capacities of community based leaders
Dissemination of Information by producing innovative Audio-Visual Materials

Conduct People’s Audit Process of Urban Housing Policies and evolve evidence based citizens report

Launching of Media Campaigns to generate awareness and bring into the popular discourse, the issues of the deprived urban communities among the policy makers and the general public

Our Areas of Work:

We work in the cities of Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore in the state of Tamilnadu

Bragging rights

IRCDUC comprises of policy researchers with over 10 years of experience working with the deprived urban communities supports the work of the IRCDUC. The extensive work of IRCDUC has enabled people from over 16 localities to avail their right to housing. Our people’s audit report and the online campaign has resulted in availing basic amenities including education, health care, water facilities and roads services for over 15,500 displaced urban communities in Chennai. The evidence-based report produced has resulted in bringing forth policy changes in the arena of housing rights.

19/04/2026

The journey of IRCDUC began in 2010 with a few committed individuals determined to resist forced evictions and stand for justice. By 2018, this effort had grown into a full-fledged organisation.

Over the years, through evidence-based advocacy, research, and sustained engagement, we have worked to ensure that the voices of urban deprived communities are heard, recognised, and acted upon.

We remain deeply grateful to everyone who has stood with us and believed in this journey. We look forward to your continued support and presence.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

06/01/2024

Want to do something to help change city for the better? Come & be a part of this 'datajam'. What's a datajam? It's people from diverse backgrounds coming together to scrape, clean & analyse data to understand specific challenges (in this case, flooding) facing a city (Chennai city) & propose solutions. Sounds exciting...! Be there!

Register - https://bit.ly/datajam-jan24

Citizen Matters Ircduc Greater Chennai Corporation Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkalam Tamil Nadu Weatherman CMDA Chennai

20/11/2023

IRCDUC is hiring Community facilitators for a fixed-term contract. The community facilitator should be within the community. The locations are mentioned below.

Apply: https://forms.gle/nbL9MZMMZWK4J9a96
Website: https://ircduc.org/home

15/09/2023

Report is released today at ICSA, Chennai.

The report on problems faced by rightsholders for more than 4 decades in housing project financed in Tamil Nadu World Bank Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board

Link:

World Bank Financed Housing Project in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.pdf

14/09/2023

JOIN US!!!

Highlighting the problems faced by rightsholders for more than 4 decades in housing projects financed in Tamil Nadu.

To know more about World Bank World Bank India projects, do ask our researchers!

International Accountability Project (IAP) Joel Shelton

19/05/2023

We are organising a Training on Addressing Gender-based Violence for the women, men & transpersons in the resettlement sites of Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board - Perumbakkam on 23rd May at 2pm.

All are Welcome!

10/05/2023

CALL FOR SUPPORT for the justice of the right holders of the Madras Urban Development Project (MUDP) funded by the World Bank India World Bank

📝Sign the petition: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnfF14lJP8iEGzNM9CH0Wt52gDgpajYCS2pR13rh9UnZxX4w/viewform

Ircduc Housing and Land Rights Network, India Coalition for Human Rights in Development ESCR-Net

09/05/2023

We launch the 'Safe Spaces Campaign' in Perumbakkam tomorrow (10 May 2023) from 3 to 4 pm. Kindly extend your solidarity

19/04/2023

19,817 families (79,500 people) from Chennai were evicted resettled from December 2015 to March 2023. IRCDUC's Fact Sheet on Evictions

14/03/2023

Women's Day Celebration at perumbakkam along with women leaders. Spl thanks to our guest of honours, Mr Darwin CDO Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board, Adv Jothilakshmi Voice of People, Ms Sujatha Devi SI Greater Chennai Police - GCP

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Telephone

9941537581

Website

https://ircduc.org/, https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb7zks5Dp2Q98YBMcJ3e

Address

107 Pantheon Road
Chennai
600008