Housing for All: From Rhetoric to A Reality Check on Slum Statistics for Operationalization of Flagship Missions in India

Amitabh Kundu ()
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Amitabh Kundu: Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute

Chapter Chapter 2 in Accessible Housing for South Asia, 2022, pp 9-27 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A negative perspective on slumsSlum in the domains of urban planningPlanning and data collection has been responsible for the process of exclusionary urbanizationUrbanization in IndiaIndia, whereby residents are evicted and relocated to the peripheries. Owing to not having a sharp focus on the tenurial securitySecurity and tenabilityTenability of slumsSlum, only a small percentage of the targeted populations has been brought under the development missions of governmentGovernment, resulting in the eviction of slumSlum population, segmentation of cities and degenerated peripheralization. There is an urgent need for expanding the scope and coverage of information, collected by Population Census and NSSO as well as restructuring their framework of data generation. Also, a system to collect and collate slumSlum-related information, generated through regular administrative work during the implementation of development schemes, in a temporally and cross-sectionally comparable manner must be set up. This would help in monitoring the key indicators of SDG 11 that envisage access to adequate, safe and affordable housingAffordable housing and basic services to all, thereby promoting inclusive and sustainable urbanizationUrbanization. The number of slumsSlum in IndiaIndia that have been identified using governmentGovernment notification and legal sanctions as being tenable for in situ development is much less than that recognized or projected at the policy level. A positive perspective on slumsSlum, built through an index of tenabilityTenability, defined inclusively, would greatly enhance the scope of state intervention and address the needs of a much larger segment of IndiaIndia’s deprived population.

Keywords: Slum statistics in India; Inclusive urbanization; SDG 11; Slum vulnerability; Notification of slums; Tenability index and in situ upgradation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88881-7_2

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