The Union Ministry for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) has identified sites for in situ rehabilitation of slums in the city. To be taken up on a pilot basis, the project will be initiated in slum clusters that have come up on Railway land and perilously close to the tracks in Zakhira and Choona Mandi.
A meeting of officials from HUPA and the Railway authorities was held recently to draw up a plan for clearing out the slums that have come up near the tracks. “There are about 9,000 hutments that have come up in these areas on Railway-owned land. The Ministry is now working out a plan to rehabilitate these people within one kilometre of their existing dwellings,” said an official who was part of the meeting.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/new-housing-project-slum-dwellers-railway-land
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/smriti-kak-ramachandran
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/housing
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/slums
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-housing-and-urban-poverty-alleviation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/habitat-and-urbanisation
