Slum improvement act.

1. SLUM IMPROVEMENT ACT
By
Dr. Venkateswarlu Gogana

2. T
opics
• Introduction
• Urbanization trend
• Slumpolicies in India
• Mumbai’s SlumRehabilitation Scheme
• Conclusion
• Q&A/ Discussion

3. Urbanizationtrend
Source:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=all

4. SlumPoliciesin India
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5. Slumsin India
• Definition
A compact settlement of at least 20 households
with a collection of poorly built tenements,
mostly of temporary nature, crowded together
usually with inadequate sanitary and drinking
water facilities in unhygienic conditions.
Source: Government of India. (2010). Report of the committee on slum statistics/census.

6. Slumsin India

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9. Slumsin India

10. Slum population has increased from 75M in 2001 to
93M in 2011.

11. Whydoslumsproliferatein India?
Poverty
Lack of affordable
housing
Slum
formatio
n
Excessive/obsolet
e regulations
Income
inequality
Lack of economic
growth
In-migration
Source:UN-Habitat (2003) Challengeof slums
Excessive
Regulations
Slum Formation

12. Whyareslumsproblematic?
• Detrimental to health
• Locking land for infrastructure/open spaces
• Insecure tenure
• Discrimination
…Arethey?
• Slumof hope
• Solutions to governmentfailure
• Community
• Eco-friendly/sustainable

13. RajivAwasYojana(RAY)
• Three-tiered approach
– Improvingexisting slums
• Relocation/upgrading/redevelopment
– Preventing future slum formation
• Lifting regulatorybarriers
• Subsidizing mortgage for thepoor
– Improving governance
• Decentralization
• Information base(e.g. SlumGIS)

14. Slum Rehabilitation Scheme
in Mumbai
T
akenby ShoheiNakamura

15. Questions: Is Slum Rehabilitation
Scheme…
•Effective in improving living conditions of
the urban poor?
•Replicable to other cities/countries?
•If not, how should we amend the policy?

16. Rehabilitatedhousing
T
akenby ShoheiNakamura

17. Summary
• T
opdown/bottom up
• Community participation/development
• Private-public partnership
• Market andspeculation
• Planning regulations and easement
• Informal sector/housing