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CAN INDIAN CITIES BE SLUM FREE? DREAM TURNING INTO REALTY.
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K K Infra on 30/11/2011 09:17:00
 
Can we envisage any indian urban area without organic housing developments
specifically slums & squatters? The present mega cities like Kolkata, Delhi,
Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Lucknow, Kanpur dotted with slums in the mid sixties
due to so called industrialisation in India. Large numbers of people from rural
areas started moving towards urban centres in the search of job opportunities
and started staying also occupying public and private space. Most of the slums
mushroomed at the heart of the cities. As per present data around 15% of the
urban India is in slums and around 80% slums are on government lands in the form
of open land left for parks, road sides etc.The number of slums was highest in
Maharashtra (32 per cent) followed by West Bengal (16 per cent) and Andhra
Pradesh (15 per cent)The figures of percentage staying in slums is alarming in
Mumbai around 56%, and in Faridabad, Meerut,Aligarh and Kanpur around 45 to 50%.
Even Kanpur was officially declared as slum city long back in 1952 due to rapid
industrialisation. The existing infrastructure in slums is in very deteriorating
stage inspite of better paying capacity by the slum dwellers.
Ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation (MHUPA) has started a massive
though process supported by schemes to get rid of slums by giving property right
to the dwellers while redeveloping the land into valuable real estate that would
add to the nations economic growth. The government plans to build 50 lakh
dwelling units in five years across 400 towns and cities, in its most ambitious
plan ever to house 6 crore slum dwellers and realise the vision of a slum-free
India. If this programme is properly implemented government could get valuable
free land thousand of acres across the country at the heart of the cities and
PPP model could also be implemented with the private real estate developers.The
ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation has sought an allocation of Rs
2,25,000 croreover onefifth of the total budget expenditure for the current
fiscalfor the entire scheme, said a senior ministry official involved with the
preparation of the proposal that has been sent to the Planning Commission. The
programme, named Rajiv Awas Yojana, draws from the experience of the government
in housing the urban poor under the ongoing Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission , and is touted as the first sincere attempt to rid India of
slums.
This is good step and thought of giving proper staying in smaller flats to the
dweller rather than staying at precious land causing enigma to city also. The
conversion of existing slums land owership to dweller will also encourage them
to strengthen the housing. The efforts made by central governments should also
be supported by state governments and local agencies to make India cities
practically slum free.