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CASE STUDIES
Following a reconnaissance borough IX along Chetla were deteriorated to the point
study of all four projects, Hat Road (Map 1). Prior to where KMC and the Kolkata
the one with the poorest the BSUP project, in order to Environmental Improvement
infrastructure and most improve the deteriorating Program (KEIP) decided to
vulnerable current state was living circumstances of EWS demolish the four housing
chosen for a survey. Therefore, in the neighbourhood, flats blocks and the water body
for the purpose to evaluate were approved for in-situ on the site and redevelop
the condition and quality of rehabilitation in Chetla under the slums under JNNURM-
life in a slum rehabilitation the Slum Redevelopment BSUP Programme. Under
project under Basic Services Scheme (1969). On the the BSUP strategy, the KMC
for Urban poor (BSUP), we property, there was a body and KEIP built 10 dwelling
have studied and surveyed of water that was used for complexes in 2006 for the
the slums of Chetla which local fishing. Later, it was site’s slum redevelopment. A
was an in-situ redevelopment discovered that squatters G+4 construction was built to
project. This approach was had occupied some of the replace the two demolished
implemented throughout the surrounding lands. Four buildings, and some basic
slum population for project towers were built in the amenities and utilities were
delivery and addressed region in 1969 as part of the placed on the site. Phase- 1
the overall housing and Slum Redevelopment Scheme (416 DU) of the BSUP project
infrastructure services gap of (1969), accommodating began construction work in
an individual or the slum area 160 DUs (G+3), but the 2006; phase 2 (64 DU) of the
as a whole. households refused to pay project began construction in
rent beyond what they were 2011, and it was completed in
Location already paying in the slums. 2013. Flats were distributed
The BSUP colony is situated Over the course of the year, the to the beneficiaries in 2013
in Kolkata’s ward 82 and conditions of these dwellings (figure 1).
FIGURE 1: Location of Redeveloped Slums and their Transit Shelter
Source: Compiled by Authors (Primary Survey, 2020)
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