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CASE STUDIES

States Cities

Trivandrum Kochi Mukkam
• Capital city and • Municipal Corporation in • Municipality town in the
Municipal Corporation in Ernakulam district Kozhikode district
Thiruvananthapuram district. • Population (Census 2011) • Population (Census
• No. of wards - 100 6,01,574, 2011) 40,670
Kerala
• Total population (Census • The slum population
2011) - 752,490 & 191,446 constitutes only
HHs 0.86 percent of the

• 100 wards population.
• No of slums - 82
Chennai Coimbatore Uthiramerur
• Capital city and municipal • Coimbatore is the • Panchayat town in
corporation second-largest city in Kancheepuram district
• The state’s largest city in area Tamil Nadu • Population of 25,194
and population as well • Administered by the • The town is divided into
Tamil Coimbatore Municipal
Nadu • Total population (Census Corporation 18 wards
2011) - 7,088,000
• A total of 29per cent of • Total population (Census
Chennai’s population resided 2011) - 1,584,719
in slums as of 2011 • No of slums - 319
• Slum HHs-46650

Limitation: Owing to the study based on the opinions/ the BLC subsidy. However,
focus of the study on BLC responses expressed by the slum dwellers in the smaller
beneficiaries, the sampling respondents, at times on cities continued falling out
was designed based on behalf of the BLC beneficiary of the purview of the scheme
specific inclusion criteria. in the household. due to the lack of appropriate
This prevented the study land ownership documents.
from delving into the category Key findings emerging States which had provided
with neither land nor BLC, from the analysis of the the slum dwellers with patta
which remained excluded. implementation practices in the past appeared to be the
Additionally, the responses of BLC in three states: forerunners in the scheme
of the HHs in stating the Odisha, Kerala, and TN, are implementation. The state
nature of the settlement highlighted below: such as Tamil Nadu, which
(slum/unauthorised Facilitated land transfers had a history of providing
colony/authorised colony/ enabled improved access to land at no cost for the poor to
resettlement colony) in BLC subsidies construct houses in the past,
which they reside may not could approve the highest
be entirely reliable, given the As per the PMAY-Urban number of applications under
complexity of administrative guideline, submission of land the BLC as of 2018 (Figure 5).
classification. Therefore, the ownership documents is the Under this scheme, free pattas
inferences were drawn for the critical first step for availing were given to individuals

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