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THEME PAPER

for Facilitating Low Cost increase in the supply of land. socio-economic and physical
Housing Keep Slum Dwellers where profile of slums; possibility of
The existing legal framework they are rehabilitation and
needs close scrutiny and drastic Slums not only house large share redevelopment; number and
amendments. Newly enacted; of urban population, but they profile of targeted beneficiaries
“Right to Fair Compensation and are also known to occupy requiring housing; and
Transparency in Land considerable proportion of understanding the length,
Acquisition, Rehabilitation and prime urban land. In-situ breadth and depth of the
Rese lement Act, 2013”, needs development of these problem. Accordingly, it is
critical review to make land se lements, allows slum important to create a data bank
acquisition for housing the poor dwellers to remain connected to to understand the requirement
both simple and efficient. Rent their own networks and sites of of affordable housing at city,
control laws also need close economic opportunity, besides state and national level and
scrutiny in order to promote creating housing stock for other evolve rational policies, options
rental housing in urban areas on categories. and programs to make urban
large scale and bringing unused India slum-free. PMAY offers
Creating a National Data Bank great opportunity to create the
houses into the urban market.
Modifying Urban Land (Ceiling and For making cities slum-free, it is data bank.
Regulation) Act would facilitate critical to quantify the number of Registering Migrants to Cities
slums existing in various cities;

Figure 5: Prefabrication technology for low cost housing

Source - google image

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