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Figure 2: Distribution of estimated Urban housing shortage components, formulate a
in India (million) genome and are interdependent

as a result of their own
Factors As at end-2012
interaction. This interaction can
Households living in non-serviceable katcha houses 0.99 be be er represented by a
Households living in obsolescent houses 2.27 pyramid as given in Figure 3.
Households living in congested houses 14.99
Figure 3: The Metropolitan Genome
Households in homeless conditions 0.53

Total Urban Housing shortage 18.78
I. Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) 10.55 (56%)
II. Low Income Group(LIG) 7.41 (40%)
III. Middle & High Income Groups (MIG+HIG) 0.82 (4%)
Note: Values in parentheses are percentage shares.
Source: Report of Technical Group (TG-12) on Estimation of Urban Housing
Shortage 2012, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, GoI.

METROPLITAN SCALE housing. In India, Census
Source: PedroBOrtiz.com
defines metropolitan cities as
The metropolis comprises of
cities with million plus
urban units. These urban units
population. For these million The entire metropolitan
share a significant commuting
plus cities the Census definition governance and the
on a daily basis. The residents in
of an urban agglomeration metropolitan management is
these urban units commute to
requires that it should be a based on these components. The
their workplaces on a daily
basis. To find the low land rates, continuous urban spread governance component includes
constituting a town and its the equilibrium between private
low housing prices or the lower
adjoining urban growths or two sector and public sector. The
rents, they tend to reside in
or more physically contiguous economic parameter includes
urban units away from the city-
towns together with adjoining financing, investments,
center. This makes the
outgrowths. There are 53 urban efficiency for development of the
metropolis to expand further,
agglomerations in India with a metropolis. The physical
making the housing and its
population of 1 million or more environment component
affordability a metropolitan
as of 2011, which are expected to includes green and grey
issue and not an urban issue.
reach 100 plus by 2051. infrastructure which contribute
A metropolitan area is a region Metropolises are much more to the sustainable development
consisting of a densely complex than cities. Their of the metropolis. The social
populated urban core and its
complexity can be described component in the genome
less-populated surrounding
through 4 components- Social includes justice to a ain equity
territories under the same
Equity, Economic Efficiency, in the metropolis. The
administrative division, sharing
Physical Sustainability and institutional governance binds
industry, infrastructure and
Governance Equilibrium. These the rest of the three components

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