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POLICY REVIEW

IMPORTANCE OF INCLUDING REVENUE

ADMINISTRATION IN IMPLEMENTING

INCLUSIVE HOUSING PROGRAMMES

MS. APARNA DAS Prime Minister’s Awas Yojna State for regularising the land
(PMAY) - Urban (U) - a titles of the urban poor. These
MS. ANINDITA Centrally sponsored Mission innovations facilitated the urban
MUKHERJEE mode program launched in poor in the state of Odisha to
the year 2015 - embarked access subsidy under BLC.
on the ambitious journey of
“The Land Rights to Slum provisioning Housing for All INTRODUCTION
Dwellers Act (LR Act) was by 2022. Seven years into the The close link between tenure
enacted in 2017 to recognise the implementation, it emerges that security and poverty reduction
contribution of the urban poor, almost 70 percent uptake of has been well recognised
especially its slum dwellers in PMAY is for the Beneficiary-Led by institutions such as UN-
the city constituting about 25 Construction (BLC). This was Habitat among others.
percent of the urban dwellers, not the case in the initial days. Globally, over the years,
by empowering them with Not having the ‘Right’ papers public institutions have made
restricted uptake of the BLC
land rights and access to basic implementation. Most states efforts to regularise slums and
civic and social infrastructure. in the beginning insisted on informal settlements through
The Act, implemented through Records of Rights (RoR) as the de jure intervention and land
the Odisha Livable Habitat adequate evidence of ownership. titling emerged as the popular
Mission (OLHM) also known The poor especially in small and measure. Such measures have
as the JAGA Mission, aimed medium towns, most often will been supported by various bi-
at giving land rights to the not have RoRs. The urban poor and multi-lateral institutions
slum dwellers on ‘as is’ ‘where mostly use their plots for self- focusing on enhanced tenure
is’ basis. ” use; so not enough incentive security and reducing poverty.
for them to get the RoRs which Conferring security of tenure
is administratively complex, through legal measures
Key Words: Urban Land Tenure, Urban expensive and time intensive.
Land Title, Urban Planning Frameworks, has emerged as a critical
Access to Institutional Credits, Urban Many states addressed these constituent that enables
Poor, Revenue Department, Tenure barriers through process access to decent shelter and
Insecurity, Land Rights innovations and facilitated basic civic amenities.
the urban poor to gain access
Ms. Aparna Das (corresponding author, to subsidy under BLC. This The United Nations estimates
aparna.das@giz.de) is Senior Advisor, paper highlights the specific that much of the population
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale processes involved in Odisha
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), India, and Ms. for obtaining the ‘Right’ papers increase in India between
Anindita Mukherjee is Associate Fellow, and innovations adopted by the 2015 and 2030 will take
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi place in urban areas, during

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