Urban poor isolated from the development plan
NGO Yuva conducted a study titled ‘Ground Truthing’ in the P North ward Malad for the urban poor in order to make them understand about the land use implementation and reservation in the city. The ward consists of 9.58 lakh people.
60 percent of the population in the city lives in slum and around 10 billion of them have to face the risk of demolition every now and then. In Mumbai, half of the population lives on less than 6 percent of land.
On one hand, the state demolished illegal settlements and on the other hand, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is mapping informal settlements in the city. Over 20 years, 5-7 percent of the actual development plan was implemented in the city’s 24 wards. The execution of the public health scheme is only about 58.27% in P north ward out of which 90% is concentrated in Malvani.
Around 1,850 people were homeless as the civic body demolished 350 homes in Malvani, and Kharodi last week. The ward’s total area is 11,680 acres and the total housing reservation is only 492 acres. The ward needs 48 health clinics, but has only seven. The ward also requires at least four hospitals, but has only one.
The development plan has not made any housing , education or public health for the poor. One-third of the development in the area of municipal housing has been carried by private developers in selected places with no facilities for low-income groups.
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