NEW DELHI: Slum dwellers, who sublet flats allotted to them for their rehabilitation and continue to stay in the jhuggi (slum) will face cancellation of their allotment with immediate affect. The move is aimed at checking the mushrooming of slums in urban areas.
The housing and poverty alleviation ministry has accepted this recommendation of the parliamentary standing committee on urban development.
It has become common practice across urban areas for slum dwellers shifted to new buildings to sublet their houses and come back to the slums. They do this as slum areas are not razed even after new flats are allotted to the slum dwellers.
Taking note of this trend, the panel has also recommended that the ministry should regularly monitor the progress and ask the state government to submit the status of the vacant land after slum rehabilitation.
The committee has recorded its displeasure over the ministry taking out the subcomponent of “rental housing” in the new housing mission, which was there in the original proposal. Observing that everyone can’t own a house in urban areas, the panel said, “People migrate from rural areas to urban areas in search of jobs. In many places, wage labourers working in factories and industries reside in pathetic conditions.”
It said the ministry had proposed to provide a house up to 30 sq m for families and single room hostels/dormitories for single peeople. “The committee strongly feels that scheme of rental housing will complement the government’s efforts for providing housing to all. By not approving this innovative and practical approach to mitigate the housing shortage, the ministry has closed one of the important avenues,” the report said.
The panel has recommended government to reconsider the proposal and include rental housing as a component of “Housing for All”.
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