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or faulty arrangement of streets, conceptualization and initial that is permission to build more
lack of ventilation, light, or stages and do not pick up the floor area on a piece of land in
sanitation facilities or any way they should. On the face of a slum redevelopment project,
combination of these factors it, it should be something that and thus books higher margins
which are detrimental to the developers should die for and in these projects. However, there
safety and health (Census of vie for as in a slum rehabilitation are many challenges which are
India, 2011). project, the biggest cost head, explored in the paper which
land, comes free. A developer is make it difficult for the developer
Since independence in 1947, expected to build houses for the to take up such projects.
the Government of India has slum dwellers and in return get
devised several housing policies a portion of the total space for SLUMS SCENARIO IN
that address the Economically development which it can sell at DELHI
Weaker Section (EWS) and the market rates. The developer gets
Lower Income Group (LIG). higher floor area ratio (FAR), Delhi, the capital of India is
The response of the government spread across 1,483 sq. km with
to tackle the issues of informal Figure 1- Location of Slums in Delhi. One can see that the slums are
settlements have evolved over located all across the city. (Source DDA)
time, from slum Clearance
and improvement, to slum up
gradation and relocation, to
slum rehabilitation. By involving
the private sector and using real-
estate as a financing tool, this
policy marks a stark departure
from the previous policies
which focused on piecemeal
upgradation efforts in slums
(National Slum Development
Program) or used government
machinery to create poor quality
public housing (Basic Services to
Urban Poor).
Delhi has around 900 slum
clusters housing almost a fifth
of its population. The Delhi
government is now trying
to redevelop about 30 slum
clusters in two phases with
the involvement of private
developers. Despite governments
efforts to incentivise the in-situ
slum rehabilitation scheme,
slum rehabilitation projects are
generally stuck up at design,

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