Homelessness in the context of the Delhi Master Plan 2001: Some results from the census

Abstract

After the announcement of the Delhi Master Plan (DMP) 2001, the Supreme Court ordered an immediate closure of the polluting industries in particular, in all the residential areas. A large number of workers lost their jobs and homes, especially the jhuggis in which they lived in and around their workplace. A simultaneous drive was geared towards demolishing the unauthorised jhuggis, without taking any account of the poor residents. The urban situation looks awful when a large section of the poor, the majority of whom are migrants from the rural areas find shelter in commercial areas and congested localities, streets and pavements, under the bridges, open spaces like parks, shops, temples, etc, and even on the rickshaws and carts. This paper attempts to analyse homelessness arising out of urban regeneration and renewal in the context of the DMP 2001.

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