POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY TN

as well as new additions to the number of poor due to urban growth. It emphasizes that
States/UTs develop a Slum–free State/UT/Cities vision and develop a legal framework for
regularizing space and accord property rights to the slum-dwellers as well as create
space for the poor and new entrants to cities as they grow. It proposes a four-pronged
approach:
(i) ‘in situ’ development programmes with basic amenities and an enabling strategy for
affordable housing in the case of ‘tenable’ slums, with reconfiguration to the extent
possible based on town planning norms of the State/UT concerned;
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
development in ‘relocation’ sites with affordable housing and access to all basic
amenities, including easy access of public transportation to commute to jobs for
rehabilitating the ‘untenable’ slums; efforts will first be made to re-examine the
issue of so-called ‘untenability’ and whether the untenable slums could be settled in
tenable slums with densification based on city-wise slum upgrading approach;
housing and civic development programmes in peripheries of existing cities and
towns to accommodate the urban poor including migrants, with a focus on publicprivate
partnerships and requiring/incentivising developers to adopt inclusive
zoning and reserve land/houses for the poor; and
integrated-and-inclusive new townships around emerging hubs of industry, trade
and commerce, including Special Economic Zones (SEZs) with adequate space for
housing the poor and informal sector workers as part of the location policy for
those entities.
To develop a suitable city level strategy RAY will take up an ‘equitable cities
campaign’ in select cities /municipalities. These cities will be enable to draw up
development and action plans within the state specific plan/policy, and to operationalise
them to upgrade or rehabilitate existing slums and make new land and housing available
for the urban poor within the formal planning system at least at the rate of their growth
in population. The RAY emphasizes taking a whole city (preferably city agglomeration)
approach, mapping all existing slums and deficiencies therein, and undertaking a
complete household biometric survey with identification numbers.
The objectives of the revised (with modified guidelines) Swarna Jayanti Shahari
Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) are:
• Addressing urban poverty alleviation through gainful employment to the urban
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