earnestly; and the 'Slum Upgradation
Programme (SUP)' under which basic amenities are to be given
to slum dwellers will be implemented without delay ... pavement dwellers
for a long time, foot-paths have ceased to be foot-paths. He
says that the pavement dwellers and the slum or basti
guntas only as 'slum area'. The appellants, an
Association representing the interest of slum dwellers and a
resident of the area challenged notification ... unhygenic and insanitary conditions prevailing in the slums
for better accommodation and improved living conditions for
slum dwellers for the promotion of public health generally
appellant more than 30 years back to
develop the slums and rehabilitate the slum dwellers in
proper accommodation.
THE FACTUAL BACKGROUND:
2. This case ... hereinafter referred to as ‘the Trust’. A slum had developed
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over the said land. The slum dwellers formed an Association
known as ‘the Shivaji
clear that there can be a scheme for development of slums and slum dwellers may come together to form a Cooperative Housing Society ... place is to be granted on lease to the slum cooperative society.
h) Slum dwellers can organise and unite themselves into a cooperative housing society
Slum Act. However, there is nothing in the scheme of D.C. Regulation 33(10) that an individual slum dweller gets a right to decide ... plot showing slum structures thereon. While undertaking the survey, they should collect the information of the proposed members/slum-dwellers and fill up the self
view of
the policies governing the relocation and rehabilitation of the
slum dwellers. It was submitted on behalf of the petitioners that ... Scheme framed by the Delhi Government
for rehabilitation of the slum dwellers. In the 2000 Scheme
there is no mention of any exception, such
land on which such
slums are located or by Cooperative Housing
Societies of such slum dwellers a total floor space
index of upto ... slum areas could be filed by an owner of the land, non-governmental
organization, a cooperative society of the slum dwellers and/or a developer
Slum Act to take such measures
and initiate such steps as are permissible therein so as to
improve the condition of slums and slum dwellers ... provided for by the Slum
Act . The broad object of the Act is to remove the slums. Slums
are a source of nuisance and affects
plot Nos.88 to 104. This slum is inhabited
by approximately 2270 slum-dwellers. MCGM is the owner of the land.
23. A portion ... clearance of slum areas and
their redevelopment, in the process to provide reasonable housing
accommodation to the eligible slum-dwellers. Thus slum-dwellers who
belong
land on which such slums are located or by Cooperative Housing Societies of such slum dwellers a total floor space index of upto ... scheme submitted by a proposed society for slum rehabilitation is sanctioned, then the eligible slum dwellers who are not members of the society
