POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY TN

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.
Under the RAS, urban local bodies will be required to
1. conduct slum and BPL household surveys, priorities slums identify beneficiaries,
explain schemes and issue biometric ID cards;
2. implement the RAS in convergence with Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission, including the scheme of Affordable Housing along with other
programmes, dovetailing Swarna Jayanti Shahari RojgarYojana to address the
concerns of employment and skill development of the urban poor in addition to
shelter; and
3. induce public private partnership in construction, especially new construction of
social housing by identifying land or deciding on models for public-private –
partnership with land of the private parties.
Wherever feasible, additional land for urban development will need to be
released by the construction of outer ring roads. The construction of the ring roads and
extension of inner city road networks themselves will create jobs for skilled as well as
unskilled labour, release land for other economic activities between the ring road and the
inner city or otherwise extended urban areas while preventing formation of additional
slums through the strategy of low-cost housing. However, separate financing will be
required for the development of physical and social infrastructure.
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:
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