Urban poverty alleviation and shelter issue

Abstract

The migration of people from rural as well as urban settlements assumed unmanageable proportions resulting in urban chaos, sub-standard and dehumanising envionment which has further resulted into distinctive hange in the living style of urban people thus ruralising the urban way of life. There is also a noticeable change of urban population living in slums due to wide spread poverty and neglect of urban basic servcices. Housing being one of the most important sector of urban development present itself a critical situation in urban India and for decades it remained as a neglected sector in the development programmes. Urban management tasks call for improvement in the institutional capacity for organising, undertaking, planning, programming and implementing the whole range of urban services which requires structural improvement of the local bodies including improving internal working system. The involvement of community at each stage of planning and development is necessary to enhance the success of the programme and maximising the community understanding.