Housing Stock, Amenities and Assets in Slums based on House listing and Housing Census 2011: Recently Ajay Maken released the above report. Further,he said that his Ministry will frame “Slum Upgradation Index” City Wise and State Wise for monitoring periodically the Up gradation of Slums in the country . He said for this purpose a Committee is to suggest the methodology for drafting this index . Such datasets on slum are being brought out for the first time in the country. Snapshot of Findings from the report: 1) Slum residents have better access to drinking water and electricity than their counterparts in the urban non slum areas 2) The report also says the number of slums in the country has declined 3)The revealed that slum residents have most basic amenities like drinking water and electricity and even facilities like mobile phones, internet and private vehicles: the only service missing is sanitation
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:45:50 +0000
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