A joint government-industry task force, constituted by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, Republicly submitted a Report Titled “How to revitalize Delhi” to the state government Real Estate Potential of Delhi. ” Among its key recommendations were that slum rehabilitation projects in the national capital be undertaken on a public private partnership (PPP) basis.

If accepted, The Delhi Government will also be begin rehabilitating slums on its land on a PPP Basis. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Had Adopted Such a policy back in 2007, but has been failed to attract private development in slum rehabilitation.

How many slums are in delhi, and who is responsible for rehabilitating them?

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There are 675 slums in delhi, according to the delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (Dusib). Of these, 376 Fall on Central Government Land and Thus, Under the DDA’s Jurisdiction. Dusib is responsible for the remaining 299 located on delhi government lands. According to dusib, roughly 30 Lakh people reside in Delhi’s slums, while the aam aadmi party (aap) and bharatiya janata party (BJP) Put the number of dwellers in the natural capital aTACH.

The rehabilitation of slums in the city Is governmentned by the Delhi slum & jhuggi jhopri rehabilitation and relocation policy, 2015, which was approved by the state cabinet in 2016. Same Land or with a 5 km radius. To be eligible for rehabilitation, howver, the slum must have at least 50 Households, must have existed before 2006, and the slum dwelller must prove residence in the slum beFore 2015.

The process of rehabilitating slum dwellors in delhi has been painfully slowly slow. A decade after introducing the policy, only two in-situ slum rehabilitation projects have been completed The kalkaji apartment complex and the swabhiman apartment in ashok vihar has a combined capacity of 4,699 units. Of these, 3,301 flats have been allotted to slum dwellors from bhoomiheen camp, jailr wala bagh slum, Golden Park Rampura slum, and a cluster opposite mats jai jai kaur public

The Delhi Government, Through Dusib and Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructural Development Corporation (DSIIDC), is constructing 52,584 flats on the City’s outskirts in Dwarka, Sultanpuri, Bhalswa-Jahangirpuri, Savda Ghevra, Pooth Khurd and Tikri Kalan for slum rehabilitation. Of the 24,524 flats completed, only 4,833 have allotted to the public, and only 2,153 of these slum dwellers, according to dusib’s annual report 2020-21. These flats have very low

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What is the PPP mode of slum rehabilitation?

In all the Above-mentioned projects, the government has funded the construction of the construction of the Weaker section (EWS) and Low-Interm Group (Lig) housing for slum dwellors. Under a PPP model, howver, the government does not construct houses itself.

In Such Projects, The Government Transfers the land on which slum is located to a private development. In return, the developer builds housing for the slum dwellors on part of the land, while using the remainder to construct housing and commercial buildings. The underlying rationale is that developer recovers the cost of Building for slum dwellors by making profits from the ‘free sale’ component. The model was expected to work well since slums are typically located on high-value land in central city.

However, Since the policy’s incidence, only one project has been undertaken in PPP mode in delhi, and it remains incomplete. The troubled Kathputli Colony Project, Being Developed by Raheja Developers, was conceived in 2009, had its foundation Stone Laid in 2018, and is still not ready for Occupation by Slum Dwellers.

The DDA has repeatedly tried to attract private developers to partyipate in its policy, but has failed to do so so. In 2022, it floated request for proposals (RFP) for Six Projects Approximately 10,300 Households Across 10 JJ Cluster sites, While RFPS For Four Aditational Projects 15,000 Household. Eight JJ Cluster sites were processed to Invite Private Developrs for ‘In-Situ Rehabilitation’ under the PPP Model, according to a reply by then housing and hippy affairs minister minister harep singh purai in lo. DDA Officials Confirmed that proposals had to be discarded due to developers’ lukewarm response and that no slum rehabilitation projects are currently underway in delhi in the ppp mode, except fore. Colony in Shadipur.

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The Origins of this policy lie in the master plan for Delhi 2021, which was notified in 2007. For Private Sector Participation. “

In 2015, The Government of India Launched Its Flagshaip Housing Policy, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMay -U), Aiming to ensure housing for all by 20222. The dda’s rehabilitation policy is Based on. One of the pmay -u’s verticals was’ in situ “slum redevelopment, under which slum rehabilitation was to be carried out” Using land as a resource with private houses to proligible sligible slum dwellers … Approach aims to leverages the locked potential of land under slums to provide houses to the eligible slum dwellors bringing them into the formal urban settlement. “

Why are more slums not being rehabilitated by Private Developers?

Experts have suggested that the lack of interest in delhi’s slum rehabilitation by developers stems their greater entousasiasm for investing in other national capital region cities, likee gurgaon and noida. “This policy in which a developer builds slum housing in delhi is a non-starter care not want to play here,” Said Gautam Bhan, An Urban Researcher. “It is much easier and more profitable for private developers to invest and build in noida, gurgaon and other NCR cities.

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Other have questioned the commercial viability of the policy. “It is not commercially viable for developers to Engage in slum rehabilitation in Delhi,” Said PSN RAO, Professor of housing at the school of planning and architecture (SPA), New Delhi. He recommends that the government build housing for slum dwellors using it own funds, as it has done for the two completed projects.

The Task Force Report has also identified funding and financial viability as Challenge: “Limited Public Funding and Hesitant Private Investors, Due To Perceived Risks and Low Recognition WITH SLAM Redevelopment, Create Financial constraints. “

In November Last Year, Lieutenant Governor vk saxena approves to make the policy to make the framework more developer-refundly and incontivise participation. These changes are essentially increasing the construction area developers can earmark for Market sale. The proposed changes are currently with the union ministry of housing and urban affair and can only be implemented with its approval.

This is raising the floor area Ratio (far) for bot rehabilitation and remunerative components to 500, up from the previous far of 400 for rehabilitation and 300 for the common component. Far is used in urban planning to regulate density and control development. A HIGHER FAR Allows More Floors Or Larger Buildings To Be Constructed, Making Projects More Attractive To Builders; Conversely, a lower restriction construction to maintain spaces and reduce printing on resources like groundwater and roads.

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Another Proposed Change Allows Developers to use any unutilized far from the rehabilitation component in the remunerative/commercial plot area. Additionally, the land allocation for rehabilitation has been adjusted, reducing the minimum request for rehabilitation from 60% to 40% of land.

Experts have also not noted that policy requires slum dwellors and flat purchasers to live in close proximity, which Could make the sale of the flats differ. The Task Force Also Advocates for Separating the Rehabilitative and Remunerative Components: “The temporal linearity of the project is essentially entails initial investment by the Concessionaire in Finalization. First, which is recourated at a Subsequent Stage when the Commercial Component of the Project. According to the Task Force Meeting Minutes.

One of the changes approved in the policy by the lg attempt to address bot these issues by allowing the clubbing of plots au km area. Harshvardhan Bansal, Co-Founder of Unity Group and President of National Estate Development Council (Naredco)-Delhi Chapter, Said, “We have also proposed that the Government Shortake Rehabilitation Rehabilitation. Bunches. ” Under this approach, a developer Could Redevelop One Site Exclusively Slum Dwelller Rehabilitation, While Utilising Another Site Exclusively For Commercial Purposes. This separaction of rehabilitation and remuneration sites, with their simultaneous development, aims to resolve these challenges.

Since slum dwellors face a risk of equation without getting rehabilitation, they often resist to the land. “Providing Unencumbered Land to Developers is also a challenge as many slum dwellors, especially those who are innoble to get rehabilitated, Resist Vacating the Land,” A DDA Official Said. “Residents of slums are of reluctant to move to fear their homes and livelihoods. The disruption caused by relocation can lead to resistance from the community, complicating reproduction efts, Report identified as one challenge.

Has such a policy worked anyWhere else?

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Delhi is not the only city which has made very slow program on rehabilitating slum dwellers. The in-Situ Slum Rehabilitation (ISSR) is The Worst-Performing Vertical of PMay -urban, Accounting For Less than 2% of PMay-U’s Sanctioned Houses, According to Research by Debarpita Roy and Rashmi Frum Cent For social economic progress (csep).

Most Islam Projects were in Mumbai, Maharastra, and Gujarat’s Four Million-Plus Cities, where slum redevelopment has been underway even before pmay-u. States like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Madhya Predesh Attempt Issr but had to cancel projects. According to Roy and Kundu’s research, 31% of the projects had to be calelled, while 70% of the remaining remain incomplete. The PMay-U 2.0, launched last year removed isr as a vertical altogether.

According to Roy and Kundu, Issues Like “Multiple Ownership of the underlying Land, Legal Disputes, Changing Political Agendas, Lack of Consensus Amnot Slum House Slum Develop Developes Develop Develop Develop Development,” ARE. Behind the slow uptake of Issr Across the country.