Slum Upgradation Index

 Shri Ajay Maken, Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has said that his Ministry will frame “SlumUpgradation Index” City Wise and State Wise for monitoring periodically the Up gradation of Slums in the country. He said for this purpose a Committee will be set-up to suggest the methodology for drafting this index. Shri Maken was speaking at a function of release of report on Housing Stock, Amenities and Assets in Slums based on House listing and Housing Census 2011 here today. Shri Maken released this report in the presence of Shri R.P. N. Singh, Minister of State for at a function organized by the office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Shri Arun Kumar Misra, Secretary Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Shri K. Skandan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs and Dr. C. Chandramouli, Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India were also present. Such datasets on slum are being brought out for the first time in the country.

            Flagging the important aspects of the Slum Data in the above report,  Shri Maken said his Ministry will not have any distinction between Notified, Recognized and Identified slums while providing Financial assistance to the States under the RajivAwaas Yojana ( RAY) Scheme,  the with  an objective for bringing improvements of Slums. He urged the State Government to convert the notified local bodies into statutory local bodies with provision of municipalities for improving the living conditions in these towns.  Complimenting the efforts of the Census organization in bringing out such important facts, Shri Maken said that this Slum Data will help in redrawing our programmes/Schemes and fix priorities under various Schemes of the Ministry.

   Speaking on the occasion, Shri R.P.N Singh stated that inputs provided in the Report will be of great use to the Central ,State Governments and various stakeholders for improving the conditions in the slums. 

Dr. C. Chandramouli, Registrar General and Census Commissioner, presented the  Highlights from the report. Which  are as indicated below:

• In all 1.73 Crore Census houses have been reported in the Houselisting Blocks categorized as Slums in India, comprising 1.37 Crore slum households.

• There are 19 million plus cities where more than 25 % households live in slums.

• A majority (71%) of these are located in six States namely, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, west Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

• Out of these 19 cities, five cities namely, Vishakhapatnam, Jabalpur, Mumbai, Vijaywada and Meerut have more than 40 % slum households.

• Out of total slum houses, 92.7 % are occupied and 7.3 % are vacant.

• 84.9% Census Houses are used for residence/residence-cum-other use.

• 58.4% residential census houses are in good condition, 37.5 % are liveable and rests are 4.0% are in dilapidated condition.

• 70.2 % Slum households are owned. Rest are mostly rented.

• 74 % households use Tap as the main source of drinking water followed by hand pump/tube well (20.3%)

• Source of drinking water is available to 56.7% of the households within the premises in slums; 31.9% have the source located near (within 100m) the premises and 11.4 % have to travel more than 100 m away to fetch drinking water

• More than 90% slum households use electricity as main of lighting. 8.2% Kerosene and 0.7% households have other source of lighting and 0.5% households have no lighting in the slum areas.

• 66% households are having latrine facility within the premises meaning that every third household (34%) has no latrine facility within the premises. 18.9% slum households defecate in open and 15.1% use public latrine.

• 81% slum households have bathroom or an enclosure without roof. 53.2% households avail banking service in slum areas.

• About 70% slum households have television in their houses for entertainment, 18.7% possess Radio/Transistor.

• Computer/laptop have not made inroads in slums to the desired extent only 10.4% households have computer/laptop in their house, out of which 3.3 % have computer/laptop with internet connection (as against 9.3% in non-slum areas) and 7.1 without internet connection.

• 72.7% slum households have telephone facility out of which 4.4% have land line connection, 63.5% mobile and 4.8 % have both facilities. In non-slum areas this percentage is 83.9.