Building Castles In The Air
Building Castles in Air: Housing Scheme for Bombay's Slum-Dwellers
Author(s): Gurbir Singh and P. K. Das
Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, No. 40 (Oct. 7, 1995), pp. 2477-2481
Published by: Economic and Political Weekly
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Building Castles m Air
HousingSchemefor Bombay'sSlum-Dwellers
Gurbir Singh
P K Das
TheAfzalpurkarreport on housing of Bombay's40 lakh slum-dwellers fails to take its implicationsto their logical conclusions. With proceduresof transit accommodationnot clearly workedout and no commitmenton the part of the state towards infrastructural development,the scheme has generateda lukewarmresponseamong the buildersand mayface oppositionfrom the slum-dwellersthemselves. subsidise slum development if they are given additional FSI on slum plots as an incentive in orderto increasethe marginof profits - is at the root of the new SRS.
This was also the basis of SharadPawar's
Slum Redevelopment Scheme (SRD scheme) which was launched with much fanfare in 1991. In fact, the Afzalpurkar recommendationsare nothingbut a souped up version of the earlier Sharad Pawar's
SRD scheme.
Bombay's population over the decades
Author(s): Gurbir Singh and P. K. Das
Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, No. 40 (Oct. 7, 1995), pp. 2477-2481
Published by: Economic and Political Weekly
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4403298
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Building Castles m Air
HousingSchemefor Bombay'sSlum-Dwellers
Gurbir Singh
P K Das
TheAfzalpurkarreport on housing of Bombay's40 lakh slum-dwellers fails to take its implicationsto their logical conclusions. With proceduresof transit accommodationnot clearly workedout and no commitmenton the part of the state towards infrastructural development,the scheme has generateda lukewarmresponseamong the buildersand mayface oppositionfrom the slum-dwellersthemselves. subsidise slum development if they are given additional FSI on slum plots as an incentive in orderto increasethe marginof profits - is at the root of the new SRS.
This was also the basis of SharadPawar's
Slum Redevelopment Scheme (SRD scheme) which was launched with much fanfare in 1991. In fact, the Afzalpurkar recommendationsare nothingbut a souped up version of the earlier Sharad Pawar's
SRD scheme.
Bombay's population over the decades