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CASE STUDIES

Detailed surveys on dried up storm water drain areas or are employed in
the housing conditions, (Sukhi Nahar/Nalah) which homebased enterprises with
interviews with the residents, is used for dumping waste monthly salaries/incomes
local pradhan and RWA (Figure 3). Its origin can be ranging between Rs.5000-
heads were carried out along traced back to 1990s when 8000. Although the colony
with qualitative observations people working in the nearby was provisionally regularised
and morphological analysis industries settled here. The in 2012 and waterlines were
to arrive at distinctions and colony is a modest and laid in 2018 but piped water is
general patterns that emerge impoverished settlement with not available and the residents
out of all the case studies.
a little over 3000 residents. use ground-water through
I.G. Camp, Vikaspuri – Most of residents either work privately installed bore-wells.
West Delhi: I.G. Camp is as construction labourers The settlement has no sewer
spread over 9 acres along a and in factories in the nearby lines and paved roads.

Figure 3: Layout of I.G. Camp

Source: Author

Figure 4: Living Conditions in I.G. Camp

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