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CASE STUDIES

BASIC SERVICES FOR URBAN POOR (BSUP) PROGRAMME
A Case Study Of A Slum Redevelopment Project In Kolkata, West Bengal

MS. DEBANJALI SAHA The increasing drift of housing quality and services
in the settlement, before and
urbanisation has resulted in
DR. RUCHITA GUPTA the expansion of informal after the implementation of the
settlements and the ensuing redevelopment, and its impact on
imbalance between the demand the quality of life. A quantitative
and supply of affordable housing, approach was adopted to establish
which in turn has increased a rational nexus between
the need for shelter and related affordability, adequacy, viability,
infrastructure in urban areas. and security of tenure, which
The National Urban Housing form the conditions of housing.
“The implementation of the and Habitat Policy (NUHHP) However, the slum improvement
programme, on the other 2007 has given the nation the approach does not sustain over
hand, was intended to offer difficult objective of “Affordable the long term, as redeveloped
better social and physical Housing for All,” which has settlement shows severe levels of
infrastructure amenities that assumed special relevance in deterioration over time.
in turn have raised the level of view of the current housing INTRODUCTION
living overall, produced a safe shortages. A vast majority of
slums or informal settlements are
neighbourhood, and promoted located near the urban economic Every country’s urban areas
social cohesiveness. ” centres, which poses a great are increasingly serving as the
principal hubs of economic
threat as well as challenge to the activity, housing both the
researchers and policymakers formal and informal sectors of
regarding the growing distress society (International Labour
about the future of cities and the Conference, 2014). With a
wellbeing of the communities. population of just under 7
Keywords: Redevelopment, Urban Therefore, this paper deals billion, there are around 1
Slums, Policies, Affordable Housing, with the understanding and billion slum dwellers residing
Infrastructure reviewing of one of the two in the world (UN, Department
sub-missions of JNNURM of Social & Economic Affairs,
Ms. Debanjali Saha (ddebanjali18@ (Jawaharlal Nehru National 2011). Rapid urbanisation
gmail.com) is Junior Research Fellow, Urban Renewal Mission) i.e.,
Department of Architecture and the Basic Services for Urban accelerates the migration of
Regional Planning, Indian Institute of people from rural to urban
Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal. Poor (BSUP) programme settings while also expanding
Dr. Ruchita Gupta (ruchita.garg@ implemented on a redevelopment the supply-demand disparity
gmail.com) is Associate Professor, project for slum inhabitants of and raising the need for
Department of Housing, School of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. housing, infrastructure-
Planning and Architecture, New Delhi This paper also highlights the related services, and

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