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POLICY REVIEW

Figure 3: Process Flow for Acquiring RoR when the Occupier Possess a Sale Deed in the Name of Deceased
Father/Husband with Multiple Heirs

objective of the Tahsil Office empowering them with land and economic infrastructure.
is to act as the custodian of rights and access to basic civic
land and may be able to find and social infrastructure. The JAGA Mission employed
various reasons to confiscate Act, implemented through modern technology such as
the parcel. Thus, most of the the Odisha Livable Habitat use of drones for geo-fencing
urban poor prefers to remain Mission (OLHM) also of the current slum boundaries
invisible in the domain of the known as the JAGA Mission, to ensure high degree of
revenue department. aimed at giving land rights accuracy and transparency
coupled with field validation
to the slum dwellers on
ADDRESSING FAULT ‘as is’ ‘where is’ basis. The to create a more accurate
LINES OF LAND OLHM has five components, documentation of land rights
RECORD KEEPING: THE namely, a) appraisals of slum informed by existing revenue
APPROACH OF ODISHA settlements to understand the records. Thereafter, the
drone images acquired were
The Land Rights to Slum living conditions and issues integrated with the satellite
Dwellers Act (LR Act) was with respect to the same; data and revenue data to
enacted in 2017 to recognise b) participatory planning create a spatial overview of
the contribution of the to improve the habitats; slums. Household survey
urban poor, especially its c) improvement of basic data collected through USHA
slum dwellers in the city services; d) protection and (Urban Slum Household
constituting about 25 percent development of commons; Area) Survey has also been
of the urban dwellers, by and e) enhancement of social added to create a convergent,

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