Pushta demolition, Tehkhand Auction and Collective Wisdom !!
Multi-storey homes for slum dwellers
PTI[ TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006 11:45:14 PM]
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday announced plans to build 100,000
multi-storeyed homes for Delhi's slum dwellers in the next two years.
Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy said new housing units would
be built on the same land occupied by the slum dwellers through
public-private partnerships.
"We are thinking of building 100,000 dwelling units for slum dwellers of
Delhi in the next two years. We will be going for multi-storeyed buildings
for them," he said at the opening of a Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC)
exhibition here.
Also, he spoke about housing needs of Delhi's 16 million people, saying
authorities would be required to liberalise rules to meet the burgeoning
demands.
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"The primary role of the group would be to serve as a think tank in which
preliminary ideas can be evolved by all the participating agencies so as to
benefit from collective wisdom, concerns and experiences," he said.
Delhi's Lt-Governor B L Joshi, chief minister Sheila Dikshit, union urban
development secretary Anil Baijal and DUAC chief Charles Correa also spoke
at the event
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> Slum removal now a DDA priority: The Delhi Development Authority will be
> removing slum clusters on a priority basis in the coming financial year
> and would rehabilitate the dwellers in houses made for economically weaker
> sections (EWS) of society. To this end, the Authority in its budget
> presented on Friday also stated that it would take up construction of
> 17,950 EWS flats in 2006-07 while another 3,500 such flats are expected to
> be constructed under the public-private participation scheme at Tehkhand.
> Stating that this scheme would help in taking up of development works on a
> large scale, DDA Vice-Chairman Dinesh Rai said alternative accommodation
> would be provided to those displaced. It was also pointed out that all EWS
> flats would have an area of 25 square metres and cost around Rs. 2 lakhs
> each.
> The Hindu, New Delhi, , 3/25/2006
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Multi-storey homes for slum dwellers
PTI[ TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006 11:45:14 PM]
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday announced plans to build 100,000
multi-storeyed homes for Delhi's slum dwellers in the next two years.
Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy said new housing units would
be built on the same land occupied by the slum dwellers through
public-private partnerships.
"We are thinking of building 100,000 dwelling units for slum dwellers of
Delhi in the next two years. We will be going for multi-storeyed buildings
for them," he said at the opening of a Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC)
exhibition here.
Also, he spoke about housing needs of Delhi's 16 million people, saying
authorities would be required to liberalise rules to meet the burgeoning
demands.
...........
.
"The primary role of the group would be to serve as a think tank in which
preliminary ideas can be evolved by all the participating agencies so as to
benefit from collective wisdom, concerns and experiences," he said.
Delhi's Lt-Governor B L Joshi, chief minister Sheila Dikshit, union urban
development secretary Anil Baijal and DUAC chief Charles Correa also spoke
at the event
----- Original Message -----
From: <nidhi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Master plan issues in media" <mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: [mpisgmedia] EWS Delhi???
> Slum removal now a DDA priority: The Delhi Development Authority will be
> removing slum clusters on a priority basis in the coming financial year
> and would rehabilitate the dwellers in houses made for economically weaker
> sections (EWS) of society. To this end, the Authority in its budget
> presented on Friday also stated that it would take up construction of
> 17,950 EWS flats in 2006-07 while another 3,500 such flats are expected to
> be constructed under the public-private participation scheme at Tehkhand.
> Stating that this scheme would help in taking up of development works on a
> large scale, DDA Vice-Chairman Dinesh Rai said alternative accommodation
> would be provided to those displaced. It was also pointed out that all EWS
> flats would have an area of 25 square metres and cost around Rs. 2 lakhs
> each.
> The Hindu, New Delhi, , 3/25/2006
>
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