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PMAY: IN – SITU SLUM settlement. Under this scheme, apartments having all the basic
REHABILITATION slums which are located on amenities. The DDA engages
SCHEME central government land, state a private developer who acts
government land, ULB land, or as a facilitator and constructs
The Government of India, private land are permissible for houses for the slum dwellers
Ministry for Housing and Urban “in-situ” redevelopment. The In- on the land owned by DDA.
Poverty Alleviation devised a situ Slum Rehabilitation Scheme The In-situ slum rehabilitation
scheme in 2015, Pradhan Mantri under PMAY (U) aims to benefit component to be provided on a
Awas Yojana (PMAY), with a the slum dwellers by giving the minimum 60% of the site area
mission statement that said, slums a facelift with multi-storey and the developer shall use the
“Housing for All (Urban).” This
aimed to provide a “pucca” Figure 2-Strategy for “in-situ” Slum Redevelopment using Land as a Resource
house with water connection,
toilet facilities, and 24/7
electricity supply and access.
The Mission seeks to address the
housing requirement of urban
poor including slum dwellers.
The Master Plan for Delhi 2021
also provides for the housing for
urban poor and rehabilitation/
relocation of slums and JJ clusters.
The concept of land as a resource
is adopted to develop projects
on Public-Private Partnership
(PPP) Model, attracting private
investments by public private
partnership for this purpose,
creating planned development/
redevelopment of these colonies,
proper utilization of vacant/
encroached land parcels of DDA/
central government agencies
and reclaiming the encroached
government lands to the possible
extent and using it optimally for
creating maximum affordable
housing facilities.

The “in-situ” slum rehabilitation
approach aims to leverage the
locked potential of land under
slums to provide houses to
eligible slum dwellers to bring
them into the formal urban Source: PMAY guidelines, MoHUA, (2015)

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