Abstract:
Slums are the part of the city and slum dwellers lives in the most critical areas of urban
and rural area. Every slum has its own problem specific to the location, terrain, availability
of basic services and the extent of the basic services. Bhopal being an urban area, there
are about 366 slums as identified under Slum free city Plan Bhopal under Rajiv Awas
Yojana. Slum Improvement means Up-gradation, Rehabilitation, Relocation
Redevelopment, ultimately trying to improve the living standards of the slum dwellers.
The recent Intervention includes JNNURM, RAY and the component which deals with
slums in JNNURM is providing basic services to urban poor. The objective of the mission
is to have integrated development of slums for providing shelter, basic services and other
civic amenities.
It becomes very necessary to analyze the situation of the people and the services that
have been transformed through the scheme. There are various slum upgrading delivery
models and approaches to tackle the problems of slums. Many adaptive and proactive
measures have been implemented through a variety of slum upgrading initiatives and
partnerships; however there has been limited investigation of the longer term
sustainability of such interventions.
The study includes both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The main goal of the study
is to analyze the post scenario situation of the slums and a comparison between the
situations before intervention and after intervention. The study comprises of three phases
broadly and findings, the first phase is the literature study and is done to ascertain the
parameters for analysis which have been divided into three categories broadly. The
parameters include broad categorization of physical infrastructure, social infrastructure
and the effectiveness of all these infrastructure. The second includes the comparison of
the situation slums before intervention and after intervention by taking case study of
rehabilitated slum. The third phase is the comparison of present situation with norms
formulating categories resulting into scoring for the identification of deficiencies and
lacunas. The proposals are in the form of suggestions for these problems, process for
better Effective Management and post occupancy evaluation in a slum rehabilitation
process and general guidelines.
