1. The Changing Policy Landscape for Urbanization: What could it mean for inclusion?
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- Aromar Revi (Director, IIHS) and Jessica Seddon (Head-Research, IIHS)
There are both challenges and opportunities in the urbanization landscape in India. A wider, more strategic cross-sectoral view, going beyond the usual thinking of investment in infrastructure, basic services and poverty focus is required. 2. Future Directions for Urban Planning
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- Bimal Patel, Architect and Urban Planner
Urban planning in India has been oriented towards space and not people, with a tendency to “push out” industries and manufacturing activities, impacting the employment opportunities for low-skilled workers. There is a need to shift the urban planning perspective from an engineering to a social one, i.e. planning not only for infrastructure but also for the creation of employment opportunities, social gatherings and celebration of festivals.
3. Indian Urban Planning: Challenges to Inclusive Growth and Governance
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- Smita Srinivas, (Prof. Urban Planning & Director TCLab, Columbia University) and Champaka Rajagopal
The constraints to inclusion and growth are the same - employment, judicial and enforcement wing and land use. How these are tackled by government policies will play a large role in determining inclusiveness of cities. 4. Urban Employment and Livelihoods - Trends and Trajectories
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- Martha Chen (Asst. Professor, Harvard University)
The growing inequality in India is a challenge. Jobs have grown much slower than national output and there is a shift from “wage employment” to “self employment”, making it important to safeguard the self-employed and those working in the informal sector.
5. A Stake in Waste- Perspectives from the Ground
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- Bharti Chaturvedi (Director, Chintan)
Of the 8000 tonnes of waste generated each day in Delhi, about a quarter is picked and recycled by the city’s 1.5 million waste-pickers. The entire chain of waste-pickers, itinerant buyers, scrap dealers and re-processors is threatened by outsourcing of waste collection and restricted entry to gated communities and after waste collection points were relocated from residential areas to outside the city. 6. Membership Based Organizations of Street Vendors
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- Arbind Singh (Coordinator, NASVI)
Informal workers need to have a voice in setting the rules and the making of policies that affect them. Most street vendor organizations have risen due to harassment or evictions. There is a need to bring them together, providing them with a coherent structure, trainings and regular meetings.
7. City Government Experience: Delivery of Basic Urban Services to the Poor
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- Bijal Bhatt, Chief Coordinator, Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
SEWA has brought together slum households and assisted them to access basic services. The exercise has however faced several challenges, key being, frequent changes in the administration, lack of coordination between various agencies and the need to convince authorities to provide a complete package of services rather than taking an incremental approach.
8. Strategy for upgrading Delhi’s Slums
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- Mr. Amar Nath, CEO, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) Delhi provides the largest number of employment opportunities in India, leading to large scale migration into the city. The result is a major shortfall of houses with little or no access to basic services for a large chunk of population. The DUSIB is approaching rehabilitation through a three pronged strategy; (i) improving the environment of existing slums; (ii) redevelopment of JJ cluster sites with the permission of the land owning agencies; and (iii) resettlement of the JJ inhabitants on a newly developed site. 9. A real estate markets and shelter perspective
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- Patricia Annez, Urban Advisor, World Bank
Government regulations that restrict urban growth and large underutilised public spaces make land scarcer and increase the cost of housing for all, placing legal housing out of the reach of the poor, and sometimes even the middle class. In addition, complicated and opaque systems for managing land make transactions risky and difficult. While the Government’s aim to provide shelter subsidy to all urban poor was laudable, it was fiscally unfeasible. The current cost of providing standard low cost housing was estimated at 20-30% of GDP whereas upgrading the slums in-situ would cost Rs 20-25,000 per household – or about 1% of GDP - and could leverage private spending by households. Programs like the Slum Networking Program in Ahmedabad can become instruments of empowerment and inclusion for slum dwellers.
10. Delhi Vulnerability Study
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- John Blomquist (Lead Economist, World Bank)
The Delhi Government is making several efforts to integrate various social programs and to use technology to deliver them efficiently. The state of Delhi has 40 different social programs spread across nine different departments. ‘Mission Convergence’ aims to create an integrated database enabling various ministries to share a common platform and to develop a smart card which can be used across participating programs. A door-to-door survey of potential vulnerable households has begun, starting with slums and resettlement colonies. More than 9 lakh households have been surveyed so far and 5.1 lakh have been deemed as “vulnerable”.
11. Urban Resettlement and Savda Ghevra experience
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- Mr. Marco Ferrario (Co-Founder, Micro Home Solutions)
Savda Ghevda (SG) is a resettlement colony expected to house more than 20,000 families from various slums across Delhi on 250 acres of land. Over 8,500 families have already been relocated since its development in 2006. The homes in the resettlement colony are on small plots of 12-18.5 sqm, with a poor level of basic services. These lead to various problems like poor health due to overcrowding and indebtedness due to the use of informal finance. Almost 60% of households take informal loans for home improvements. |
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