Its a special purpose vehicle that will be created after merger and acquisition of corporatism of government departments. It will be functioning as a Special Purpose Vehicle taking up urban renewal projects in Port Blair. It will be functioning in line with Singapore Housing Board.

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18) SCP – Port Blair Housing & Development Board
c) Background
The Port Blair Master Plan 2030 refers to household survey conducted in the year
2007. Its outcome is detailed as follows-
i) 78 % of households at Port Blair are living in their own house. 9 % of the
households are living in rental houses and remaining 13 % of the households
stay in Government quarters.
ii) In surrounding regions of Port Blair, more than 25 % of households are residing
at rented houses and balance stays in own houses. These areas don’t have
government owned residential estates.
iii) Majority (81%) of residents of port Blair resides in independent houses whereas
flats and apartments constitute 3% of total available housing stock.
iv) 9% of housing stock in suburbs of Port Blair are apartments.
v) The average plot size in Port Blair and environs is around 60 SqM with a built
up area of 50 SqM, accounting for 73% of total existing residential
accommodation.
vi) single storied housing constitutes 84% of total housing, located in the primary
residential area
d) Demand Assessment
Housing demand assessment needs to be done because there is going to be need
public housing for
i) Rehabilitation of slum dwellers living in 16 Slum Pockets in the city, mostly on
encroached public & government land.
• Pockets within the city like in dairy farm, haddo, premnagar are extension
of labour barrack due to growth in natural growth of families who started
residing in the early 1960’s. Slum condition due to abuse of existing utility
and lack of space for providing individual HH utility like water & sanitation.
• Pockets like ladai Busti and lillypur that grew upon private land and also
encroachment of neighbouring govt land in the mid 1970’s. Slum condition
due to abuse of existing utility and lack of space for providing individual HH
utility like water & sanitation.
• Slums that grew up in non revenue govt land. These are inaccessible and
also have limited access to utility. Mostly resided by people from Chota
Nagpur area of India.
As on date there are 2132 slum HH, totalling around 10,000 persons, less than 10%
of city population.
ii) Transit accommodation of Tsunami victims,
• These are existing govt accommodation and accommodation leased by
govt from the private sector.
• There is a mis match between land lords expectation and government
mandated rentals. Therefore they are mostly Govt Accommodation.
• There is a potential to develop stacked container, factory made housing
units customised at site. These can be developed and relocated within a
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iii) Government housing availability & demand are detailed as follows-
Sl. No Unit Value
1 Govt Employees Nos 26500
2 Govt Employees/House Hold Nos 1.5
3 Gross Govt Employees Households Nos 17667
4 Available Govt Housing Stock Nos 7340
5 Employee HH accommodated in govt housing % 41.55%
6 Minimum Govt Housing Deficit % 58.45%
7 Additional Housing need Nos 11474
8
Transit Accommodation Requirement for govt
employee Nos 1147
9 Demand for New Built govt DU (Avg 750 SFT)
Nos 12621
Mn.Sft 9.47
iv) Housing for lease and sale Catering the needs of
• migrant – PSU, defence and Private sector employees.
• Residents aspiring for larger housing stock with the city, but currently
residing in housing stock of around 600 Sft (73 % of city’s total residents) ,
residing in non government housing stock.
• Need arising out of renewal of decayed housing stock in the non
government residential accommodation sector.
e) Port Blair Housing & Development Board42
The Port Blair Housing
and Development board
has been modelled on
the functioning of
Housing & Development
Board of Singapore.
The Indian Housing
Boards of Indian states
are PSU’s that has
remained stagnant in its
focus and product
offerings over the year.
Indian housing boards
are organizations with
high over heads
compared to FDI
realtors, but the nation
has not got any iconic
architecture nor
innovative products from
decades of existence of
these organizations.
Till date Indian housings boards only focus had been developing housing units
channelizing government owned land parcels without bid and tender.
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Over the years many private developers in India formed land Parcel Specific JD/JV
companies with these housing boards.
Today more than 80% of Singapore's population live in HDB flats, with 95% of them
owning their HDB flat. HDB Flats in Singapore are sold on a 99-year lease
agreement.
The remainder are rental flats reserved for those who are unable to afford to
purchase the cheapest forms of public housing despite financial support.
Singapore maintains a quota system of ethnicities through the Ethnic Integration
Policy (EIP). By ensuring that each block of units are sold to families from ethnicities
roughly comparable to the national average, it seeks to avoid physical racial
segregation and formation of ethnic enclaves common in other multi-racial societies.
In practise, while ethnic enclaves were avoided, some towns remained traditionally
popular for specific ethnic groups.
For instance, towns such as Bedok, Tampines and Woodlands have a slightly larger
proportion of ethnic Malays above the national average.
Partly in response to public sentiment against the alleged formation of "PR
enclaves", where some flats appeared dominated by PRs from a single nationality,
the HDB introduced the Singapore Permanent Resident Quota which took effect on
5 March 2010.
Other than Malaysian PRs which were excluded from the quota due to their "close
cultural and historical similarities with Singaporeans", all other PRs were subject to
a cap of 5% PR households per block.
Like Singapore Housing & Development Board, the Port Blair Housing &
Development Board will undertake
i) mixed use residences in PPP- JV / JD
ii) slum up gradation through amenity up gradation and introduction of diversity in
population and industrial parks
iii) Urban renewal and housing up gradation project.