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City Development Plan for Allahabad Final Report
14.1.2
Growth of
Slum
14.2 Status of
Community
Facilities
14.2.1
Water Supply
Figure 32: Break-up of Slums
Source: Oxfam India Report, 2005
Authorised
Unauthorised
Urban villages
The three-fold growth of slums in the last decade can be attributed to a combination of
factors as under:
Poor economic conditions – can neither pay rent for proper housing nor can
afford to buy a house;
Desire to live close to one's own community;
Involvement of religious or political groups who have vested interests;
Inability on the part of the local administration to prevent encroachment of
government-owned land;
Large-scale emergence of nuclear families; and,
Migration from rural areas in search of livelihood as urban areas provide
commercial and industrial set-up offering greater employment opportunities.
This section deals with the access of slums and urban poor in Allahabad to basic
services, drawing from secondary information and interactions with stakeholders. It
also reviews past and present programs for service delivery to urban poor in the city.
The aim is to identify key issues in service delivery to the poor in Allahabad and
suggest strategies that would enable the MCA and other local bodies/ parastatals to
address these issues and fulfil their mandate of providing basic services to the poor in
the city, as per the mandatory reform.
The slum settlements are not getting sufficient water to fulfil their water demand and
are therefore made to meet the requirement on their own. About 30% population of
the city is poor and resides in the slum areas. 43 slums are located along the railway
lines and in the CB areas where basic services are both very poor and negligible. Only
about 25% to 30% slum people (authorized slums + unauthorized slums) have
individual water supply connections and rest 70% to 75% people are dependent either
on the public stand post and hand pumps or do not have accessibility to the potable
water/ municipal water. Slum settlements are scattered in the entire city and a separate
arrangement of water supply system especially for them cannot be provided. An
integrated water supply system is to be designed and laid in the city, which can
provide the adequate amount of water to the citizens, including slum dwellers, so as to
satisfy their daily water demand without leaving any poorest of the poor of the city.
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