Slum Upgrading: I Was Born in A Slum, But The Slum Wasn't Born in Me

SLUM UPGRADING
“I was born in a slum,

but
the slum wasn’t born in me”
BY
ARUNA.C
JESUBALAN.J
PAVITHRA.S.G
SLUM
 A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement that is unfit

for living because it lacks access to basic sanitation, drinking water,
electricity and characterized by substandard housing and squalor.
 While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable
sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law
enforcement and other basic services.
 Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built

dwellings that because of poor-quality construction or provision of
services have deteriorated into slums.
 Many slums lack basic local authority services such as provision of
safe drinking water, sanitation, wastewater and solid waste
management. .
SLUM UPGRADING
 Slum upgrading is an urban renewal strategy which consists of

physical, social, economic, organizational and environmental
improvements to slums undertaken cooperatively and locally among
citizens, community groups, businesses and local authorities .
 The main OBJECTIVE of slum upgrading is to alleviate the poor
living standards of slum dwellers.
 The place which are densely populated and neglected parts

of cities where living conditions are extremely poor.
 The process of slum upgrading involves the improvement of
both physical and social environment. In order to direct
financial investments to the right place and problem, one
must recognize the linkages between the undermining.
SITUATION OF SLUM
 Unhygienic conditions.
 Lack of medical facilities.
 Lack of sanitation.
 Congested.
 No access to drinking water and electricity.
 Most of the slums inhabitants can’t be beneficiaries to government schemes.
 Only few slums are recognized by Government and conditions in unrecognized slums are even more worse.
 No drainage system.
 In most slums, waste water flow in between houses.
 The little medical facilities available in slums is provided by NGOs.
SCHEMES FOR SLUM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
 The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty

Alleviation has set up a Committee to look into In a bid to address the issue of slums and urban
various aspects of Slum Statistics , Census and poverty, the Government of India has undertaken
issues regarding conduct of slum census 2011 under several initiatives such as:
the chairmanship of Pranab Sen.
a) Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY)
 The Pranab Sen Committee has defined Slums as:
b) Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
"A Slum is a compact settlement of at least 20 Mission (JNNURM)
households with a collection of poorly built tenements,
mostly of temporary nature, crowded together usually c) Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)
with inadequate sanitary and drinking water facilities in d) Integrated Low Cost Sanitation (ILCS)
unhygienic conditions".
e) Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP)
f) Rajiv Awas Yojana.
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
 RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION.
 URBANIZATION.
 POOR HOUSING PLANNING.
 PROVIDES LOW-COST HOMES
 COLONIALISM AND SEGREGATION.
 FINANCIAL BENEFITS ACCRUE
 POOR INFRASTRUCTURE, SOCIAL
 INSTILS SOCIAL BENEFITS AND EXCLUSION.
LIVELIHOODS  POVERTY.
 SOCIAL CONFLICTS.
 INFORMAL ECONOMY.
 NATURAL DISASTERS.
CAUSES EFFECTS
 Increasing rural to urban migration.  Reduced life expectancy of slum inhabitants.

 Urban areas are not being improved enough to  Health problems due to drinking contaminated
accommodate the new inhabitants. water.
 Poor planning of cities.  Environment pollution.
 Poverty and lack of job opportunities in rural areas  Low standard of living.
are the push factors of migration.  Degraded health conditions.
 Urbanization – Pull factor of rural migration.  Those living in slums get victimized easily by
 High cost of living in urban areas. alcohol and drugs.
 Increasing population.  Slums breed violence, crime, diseases, epidemics
 Social exclusion. and psychological illnesses.
 Informal economy.  Preterm births.
 Some politicians use slum inhabitants as their vote  Malnutrition in children.
banks as giving fake promises of improving the  Child labor.
living conditions, they encourage slums.  No safety for women living in slums due to high
 Social conflicts – civil wars. number of drunkards.
CHALLENGES IMPLEMENTING
 ENSURE STRONG LOCAL GOVERNMENT

 RAPID URBANIZATION SUPPORT.
 ACHIEVING CRITICAL MASS  ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY ACTION AND

PARTICIPATION
 TECHNICAL CAPACITY NEEDED
 BUILD WIN-WIN PARTNERSHIPS
 SECURE LAND TENURE
HARD LIFE OF SLUM
SOLUTION
 URBAN WATER AND WASTE WATER

 Water distillation.
 Improved toilets.
 Plastics recycling
 Rainwater harvesting.
 Dams.
 Health and hygiene education.
 Home composting.
 Solid waste management.
 Solar-powered water pumps.
SOLAR-POWERED WATER PUMPS
 In drought-affected areas, women must walk miles to find

water, risking violence or animal attack, in order to
sustain their families and animals. They do this with the
knowledge that the dirty water they have collected may
well make their children very ill.
 Working with community members, Practical Action
developed a solar powered water pump that can
pump up to 30,000 litres of clean water per day.
 Using the overabundance of sunshine, the solar pump
draws water from a 100-metre-deep well, providing
families with the water that they desperately need and
rendering cases of water-related diseases a thing of the
past.
Contd(solutions)…
 SLUM IMPROVEMENT
 Urban waste management.
 Urban waste pickers.
 WATER AND SANITATION
 WASTE MANAGEMENT
FAILED SOLUTIONS SUCESSFUL STEPS
 SLUM UPGRADING -- It improved slum’s

living conditions. But it does not address
poverty and low wages of informal economy.
 Organized urbanization – Planning
& Modifying urban areas to accommodate
 SLUM REMOVAL – It made slum inhabitants newcomers.
homeless.  Legitimizing slums instead of driving them out
 SLUM RELOCATION – It moved poor people of their homes.
further away from their work places.  Improving job opportunities in rural as well as
urban areas.
 Planning rural development along with urban
development.
 Economic development.
 Better transport facilities.
 Affordable housing in urban areas.
BEING CIVIL ENGINEER ;
 We have to understsnd that although slum engineering is a part of civil engineering but a social
aspect in slum engineering is essential without which the projects fail. We have seen in india that
many projects failed because of less social mobalisation.
 Other regular features of an engineering projects should also be a part of project formulation like
• Assessment of infrastructure demand
• Preparation of detailed design
• Integration of social infrastructure
• Establish linkage with citywide network
• Use of green technology
• Examination of environmental & social impact
• Estimation of project cost
• Implementation and management arrangements including tendering, appointment
of contractors, construction schedule, construction activities, project schedule.
 Govt of India launched ‘National Urban Health Mission’ to
improve health care facilities for urban poor and implemented
‘slum upgrading’ in a few recognized slums.
 In 2015, Indian Govt allocated budget to replace crowded slums
with 2 crore homes.
CONCLUSION
Besides improving the slums, the causes of slums creation should be addressed.
Distributive development will serve the purpose and thereby everyone can have a
dignified and healthy life.
“The Slum is the measure of civilization”

THANK YOU…
TO SOME EXTENT , “I WOULD SAY THIS; IF YOU’VE SEEN ONE CITY
SLUM, YOU’VE SEEN THEM ALL”

Slum Upgrading: I Was Born in A Slum, But The Slum Wasn't Born in Me

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Slum Upgrading: I Was Born in A Slum, But The Slum Wasn't Born in Me

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Slum Upgrading: I Was Born in A Slum, But The Slum Wasn't Born in Me

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

SLUM UPGRADING

“I was born in a slum,

 A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement that is unfit

 Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built

 Slum upgrading is an urban renewal strategy which consists of

 The place which are densely populated and neglected parts

 The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty

 Increasing rural to urban migration.  Reduced life expectancy of slum inhabitants.

 ENSURE STRONG LOCAL GOVERNMENT

 ACHIEVING CRITICAL MASS  ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY ACTION AND

 URBAN WATER AND WASTE WATER

 In drought-affected areas, women must walk miles to find

 SLUM UPGRADING -- It improved slum’s

“The Slum is the measure of civilization”

You might also like

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.