CDP link - JnNURM

Preparation of City development Plan (CDP) for Meerut
in the state of Uttar Pradesh under JNNURM
City Development Plan
Final Report
practiced so far. Suffering from bias against slums these pockets have mainly been the
recipients of residues and left-over of the main city, which has created object conditions
of poor hygiene and wretchedness in one to all 108 slums as notified by DUDA. Such
treatment of slums also failed to achieve a holistic urban growth. The slums in the city are
predominantly scattered and located on private lands.
Brahmpuri and Tarapuri are the areas which are generally the only areas with clustered
pattern of slums. There are many other additional poverty clusters which exist in these
areas and because they are not listed separately they are counted under the same head.
14.1. Basic Services and Housing (Submission II)
The existing scenario in Meerut has got two distinct dimensions. Besides fulfilling the
demand of basic amenities and infrastructure, for the mainstream population, the city
needs to address the widespread disparity in access to basic urban services and
treatment of city’s slum dwellers and urban poor that constitute over 40% population of
the city.
By and large the condition of huge slum population in the city expressed in terms of
access to basic services present a very grim situation. Only 49.42% of slum dwellers
have a piped water supply, only 48.27% have individual/ private toilets, while mere 24%
of these have sewer lines. 43 % of these slums have drainage network.
Overall state of physical and social infrastructure in the slum areas highlights the acute
disparity in service distribution and provision amongst different areas of the city.
The health services to these slums are provided by 8 health posts and 4 rural PHCs
(which also cover few urban areas). There are 2 charitable hospitals which are also
functional in the city and serving the urban poor. Many NGOs are also working in these
slums in order to provide the basic education and primary health services.
Poor housing stock in different slums further adds to the degradation of these areas. As
per DUDA records a total of 11203 houses need improvement (until year 2003). Of these
8669 are partially built, while 2534 are Jhuggis/ Kutcha houses that need to be
dismantled and new housing provision need to be made on the lines of VAMBAY/ IHSDP
schemes.
14.1.1. Key Findings
The above vulnerability criteria are used for identification and classification of slums has
enriched programming. The most important finding of this exercise is that it helped in
locating and listing of registered and additional slums and rationally classifying these on
the basis of their vulnerability.
The major findings of the analysis are described below:
1. A significant proportion of slums remain unidentified
There are a significant number of slums which remain unlisted. In Meerut city, 108 slums
are listed in the official DUDA list (until year 2003) and another 43 slums have been
identified.
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