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Approach of Standards 100-125 DUs per ha for mixed getting majority consent of
developments in medium slum dwellers.
National Building Code (NBC)
Provisions of Housing for Poor: towns; and 125-150 DUs per Planning Policies of Cities:
ha for mixed developments in
The National Building Code metropolitan cities. Master Plans of Hyderabad
(NBC) of 2005 has provided – both Hyderabad Urban
for housing for the urban Programme Planning Development Authority
poor through specifications Approach (HUDA) and Hyderabad
for settlements planning. It Airport Development
allowed the development Slum Rehabilitation Scheme in Authority (HADA) – have
of housing as plotted Mumbai: Mumbai is perhaps earmarked land for urban
development and/or group the first Indian city to take the poor through zoning
housing on cluster pattern. development of housing for regulations (layout level).
The development pattern can urban poor seriously through Likewise, the Master Plan of
be on the following lines: the Slum Rehabilitation Chennai provided land for
Scheme (SRS) for the urban urban poor, especially in dense
For plotted developments, poor living in slums. Under settlements. Chandigarh city
minimum plot size to be less the SRS, Slum Rehabilitation has a definite earmarking of
than 60 sq m in metropolitan Authority (SRA) was land and a programme for
cities and less than 100 sq.m. established as nodal agency housing the urban poor on
in other cities; for slum redevelopment in such land, which makes it one
partnership with private
For group housing, at least and public sectors. SRA was of the few cities with sound
75% of dwelling units formed as a special planning planning and implementation
not to exceed 30 sq.m. in authority and was given mechanisms of housing for
metropolitan cities and 40 powers to approve the SRSs the urban poor. Master Plans
sq.m. size in small & medium without referring them to of Pune and Nagpur also
towns; and local/ regional government earmarked land for housing
the urban poor (which is also
For cluster development, the bodies. It provided a higher followed now in other towns
minimum size of plot can be Floor Space Index (FSI) of of Maharashtra). Recently,
as small as 15 sq.m. for 100% 2.5 (much higher than the Master Plan of Delhi also
ground coverage and it can go prevailing) for all SRSs and provided for land to be
upto 25 sq.m. with FSI 1.2. further incentivized slum developed for housing the
redevelopment by allowing poor in dense settlements,
NBC 2005 also specified unutilized /surplus FSI which is worth reviewing as
different development transferable in the form presented in the next section.
densities for slum housing of TDRs. The developer
(with a maximum of 500 DUs) has to build housing that Master Plan for Delhi 2021:
for various developments. accommodates slum dwellers MPD 2021 has rightly
Development Norms and at an entitlement of 225 sq addressed housing the urban
Building Service Norms ft per family (this has been poor in Delhi. It has provided
were also developed by it further relaxed to include 54% of its housing component
for low income housing: more space at an expense of for urban poor comprising:
65-120 DUs per ha for slum dweller). The success of 25% for JJ schemes of in-
plotted developments; 75- the scheme, however, is mixed situ redevelopment; 14% for
100 DUs per ha for mixed in nature due to complexity Group housing schemes; 6%
developments in small towns; of process associated with in un-authorised colonies;
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