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City Development Plan for Allahabad Final Report<br />
14.6 Slum<br />
Improvement<br />
Schemes<br />
14.7 Key<br />
Issues<br />
A 500 crore Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojna was started in the year 2002 but it still<br />
stands incomplete. DUDA’s annual progress reports indicate that only 70 houses have<br />
been built in the financial year 2003-04 (Table 56) which is a very small number as<br />
compared to the need of city. Also, the rehabilitation colonies already constructed<br />
under the scheme are located far away from the commercial and residential areas<br />
where the poor are employed and lack basic services, thus escalating the opportunity<br />
cost and rendering them an economically unviable proposition as far as livability is<br />
concerned.<br />
An average plot size of 15 m 2 has been allotted to all families that are rehabilitated<br />
without taking into account the needs of the people.<br />
The data from the past three years reveals that money for slum improvement has been<br />
mainly spent under four schemes namely,<br />
Slum Improvement Scheme;<br />
Swaran Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana;<br />
National Slum Development Program; and<br />
Valmiki Awas Yojna.<br />
As Table 56 indicates a large chunk of money every year from the slum improvement<br />
scheme is being spent on construction of nali/ kharanjas. Apart from that there is no<br />
spending to improve the Water and sanitation situations in the slums, which is<br />
reported to be very grim.<br />
Table 56: Slum Improvement Schemes and Resources Utilised<br />
Name of the slum improvement Amount Spent (in lakhs)<br />
scheme<br />
Slum Improvement Scheme<br />
2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005<br />
Nali Kharanja Improvement 71.13 30 54.5<br />
Laying of Sewer Lines √ --<br />
Construction of Kitchen Sheds<br />
Swaran Jayanti Sahari Rozgar Yojana<br />
-- -- 3.5<br />
Swa-Rozgar Yojna (Training<br />
Program)<br />
National Slum Development Program<br />
15.84 √<br />
Development of Women and Child<br />
in Rural Areas<br />
1.25 1.25 5<br />
Thrift and Credit 0.53 11.21 2.98<br />
Group Formation 2.53<br />
Installation of Handpump 166.33<br />
Valmiki Awas Yojna Built 70<br />
houses<br />
Source: DUDA Annual Reports 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05<br />
The three-fold growth of slums in the last decade can be attributed to a combination of<br />
factors summarised as –<br />
Poor economic conditions – can neither pay rent for proper housing nor can<br />
afford to buy a house;<br />
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