Indian Express 05.05.2010
Slum rehab: DDA, MCD to take lessons from Dharavi
Express News Service Tags : slum rehabilitation, delhi Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 0057 hrs
New delhi: Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday asked officials of the Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other stakeholders to conduct an in-depth study on slum rehabilitation.A team comprising members of these agencies will also go to Mumbai to study Bombay Municipal Corporation efforts to rehabilitate Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum cluster.
After the Urban Shelter Bill was passed in the Delhi Assembly, the government will be directly responsible for slum rehabilitation. The government has already identified 860 slum colonies in the Capital which have over 4.5 lakh clusters.
The idea, officials said, is to build multi-storey buildings in place of the existing slum clusters. The agencies whose lands have been encroached to raise slums will share the cost of building the units.
The government is already working on a slum relocation programme under the Rajiv Awas Yojana. The scheme is yet to take off even though nearly 8,000 low-cost houses have been ready for last two years. The government’s initial idea was to identify slums close to the Commonwealth Games sites to relocate them on priority. The houses, however, are located in far off areas like Bawana, with hardly any other support amenities.
The DDA, meanwhile, is already working on its rehabilitation scheme. The agency has allotted the work to Raheja developers to construct houses for 2,800 families by March 2012.
Slum pockets in Delhi
On DDA land
425 JJ colonies, 1.08 lakh slum clusters
Railways land
80 colonies, 60,000 slum clusters
Land and Building department
60 colonies, 40,000 slum clusters
New Delhi Municipal Council
35 colonies, 20,000 slum clusters
Municipal Corporation of Delhi
25 colonies, 25,000 slum clusters
