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HOUSING, URBAN POVERTY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

by offering them alternative sites and tenements. One survey, shall not be eligible to get a housing unit under this being provided by the Chandigarh Administration as house. Many rehabilitators encashed the subsidy by
Room Tenements were constructed in Sector 26, Sector programme. With these aims in view, the 'Chandigarh State Share. selling off the unit they went back to slums. Every
29, Sector 30, Sector 32 and Sector 38 to rehabilitate these Small Flats Scheme- 2006' was notified by the allotment is now being done on an affordable monthly
PROCESS:
slum dwellers. Chandigarh Administration in the year 2006. license fee basis with the option of owning the house after
Some of the greatest challenges for the Administration twenty years.
On the constitution of the Chandigarh Housing Board in MOBILISATION OF RESOURCES:
had been to make the slum dwellers adapt to a new
the year 1976, Chandigarh Administration entrusted the Deploying of IT for Effective Management-
The Chandigarh Administration has designated the lifestyle which primarily included paying the rent
task of rehabilitating the slum dwellers to the Board.
Chandigarh Housing Board as the nodal agency for regularly, not misusing the premises for commercial Detailed biometric survey of the 18 notified slum colonies
Chandigarh Housing Board's first important scheme of
implementation of the Chandigarh Small Flats Scheme activities or sub-letting or reselling and motivating them helped ascertaining exact number of families living there,
2712 Sites & Services in Village Dadumajra & Karsan
for construction of 25728 Small Flats. for paying the electricity / Water bills which they were which included a digital photograph of the family and
won the 1st National Prize from HUDCO in the year
accustomed of availing free-of-cost in slums through electronically captured thumb and finger impressions of
1979. The Chandigarh Housing Board has been taking up CHB, a Statutory Body constituted under Haryana
rehabilitation programmes from time to time and has Housing Board Act, 1971, as extended to UT of illegal means. The processes adopted are: the head of the family. This put to rest all possible claims
catered to the needs of about 36000 families by providing Chandigarh is an Engineering Organization engaged in Ÿ In the allotment of these dwelling units, care has and counterclaims regarding eligibility.
EWS units, One Room Tenements and Sites & Services construction of houses under its General Housing been taken to make both husband and wife joint Development of a comprehensive software SRISHTI
before the commencement of the comprehensive slum helped in reducing processing time for an application
Schemes. Besides its mandate for housing owners of the unit
rehabilitation project taken under JnNURM. from 6 months to 2 hours, workflow-based automation,
implementation, CHB is also engaged in the process of
Ÿ Underground cabling for electricity supply to no chance of skipping of the queue as regards allotment
ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIORITIES: developing various assignments of the Chandigarh prevent any pilferage
Administration such as booths for Rehri markets, process, digital photograph and fingerprint of the allottee
All previous attempts to address the problem had mixed captured and printed on the allotment letter/ possession
booths/shops for motor mechanics, project Kalagram, Dr. Ÿ Lockable water supply meters
results. With the increasing cost of land, infrastructure slip, digitized databases of voter list of 2006-10 and other
Ambedkar Bhawan, Post Master General Building, NAC
and construction, the houses were becoming costlier and Ÿ Close monitoring years under which eligibility was checked, integration
Building etc.
unaffordable. The houses constructed under the earlier Ÿ Use of biometric identification for collection of with Aadhar number and printing of Aadhar on the
rehabilitation programmes were provided to the slum The Engineering Wing of CHB is headed by the Chief license fee allotment letters.
dwellers at highly subsidized prices which command a Engineer and supported by SEs, EEs, Architect, SDEs and
premium in the market. This had mainly three AEs/JEs besides other technical/ground staff for Ÿ Depicting a photograph of the allottee and Aadhar Simplification of Procedures
implications: firstly, a large number of people thronged supervision of works. Thus all related works pertaining to number on the allotment letter and possession slip Allotment was done on-the-spot through a camp at site
the city with the expectation of getting a cheap house. implementation of the scheme right from preparation of on the flat. that helped reduce time, money and efforts, which was
Secondly, many beneficiaries sold the houses in the DPRs, tender documents, cost estimates, processing of Ÿ Ensuring demolition of huts by the allottee. The further facilitated through the presence of all officials
market at a premium and went back to the slums. Thirdly, tenders, designing of the flats and its layout etc. were demolished huts were checked by the official from involved from:
all these houses were given as site and services or
undertaken in-house. The works under the scheme are Estate Office after three days of handing over the
independent one room dwelling units which were altered Chandigarh Housing Board -for handing over of
being implemented through a transparent tendering physical possession.
with large-scale unauthorized and unapproved allotment letter and possession slipEstate Office
process. As far as the management of the financial
construction. Thus, a course correction was felt necessary These practices have been accepted and are being Chandigarh -for redressing issues relating to eligibility
resources is concerned, Rs. 436.30 crores of the project
in the existing Slum Rehabilitation Programme. followed by the residents knowing fully well that any Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh -for providing water
cost is being provided by Govt. of India as Central
digression from these could make them loosing the
For providing decent and dignified living conditions at Assistance under JnNURM and the rest Rs. 585.18 crores supply meter connection Engineering Department,
accommodation which they can own only after 20 years
affordable cost and to avoid pitfalls of the earlier share is being provided by the Chandigarh Administration Chandigarh---for providing electricity meter connection
of occupation.
rehabilitation programmes, Chandigarh Administration as State Share. Due to non-availability of all the identified Notary public -for attestation of license deed and etc.
decided to provide accommodation, in the form of one beneficiaries under survey in 2006, the project has been The Best Practices followed in the implementation Simplification of Forms
room flat, on a license fee basis to the slum dwellers. curtailed to construction of 17696 flats with a process:
Based on the socio-economic survey conducted by IDFC, proportioned cost of Rs. 657.47 crores and against this i) A simple one page application form devised with no
the paying capacity of slum dwellers has been estimated grant of Rs. 554.17 crores has been received by CHB. Change in Mode of Allotment- attachments, enclosures or proofs
at Rs. 1,000/- p.m. In order to ensure that there is no future Now under the scheme, project cost of Rs. 292.32 crores Earlier all units were allotted on a hire-purchase basis and
encroachment on Govt. land, it has been decided that any were highly subsidized. A large number of people ii) Single page allotment letter, possession slip, and
has been provided by Govt. of India as Central Assistance license deed simplified the process time
family which has not been included in the biometric thronged the city in the expectation of getting a cheap
under JnNURM and the rest Rs. 365.15 crores share is

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