Housing
Topic: Slums in Karnataka
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Ar. Kapil Arora Priya
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Slums:
• A slum is usually a highly populated urban
residential area consisting mostly of closely packed
or incomplete infrastructure.
• It is like an area where the basic amenities like
water supply, drainage, for standard living are
lacking, insanitary conditions prevail, and diseases
flourish.
• Or we can say it is a poverty stricken area, where
there is a high rate of birth, infant mortality,
illegitimacy, juvenile crime, delinquency and death,
thus representing a state of hell of hell Slums (A)
on the surface of
Characteristics of Slums:
• Overcrowding
• Inadequate access to safe water
• Narrow Dingy Lane
• Clogged Drains With Garbage
• Garbage Scattered All Over
• Water Logging
• Inadequate Or No Infrastructure
Slums (B)
Causes that create and Expand Slums:
• Rural-Urban Migration
• Urbanization
• Poor housing planning
• Poor infrastructure, social exclusion and economic
stagnation (A)
• Informal Economy
• Poverty
• Politics
• Natural Disasters
Impact of Slums:
• Shortage of Space
• Prone to natural and man-made hazards
(B)
• Poor living conditions
• Health Hazards
• Social Problems
Slums in Karnataka:
• Karnataka is one of the most urbanised states in
India with 37% of its 6.11 crore people living in
urban areas.
• According to official statistics from the Karnataka
Slum Department Board, the state has 2,796
slums housing 40.5 lakh people.
• With the expansion of Bangalore, the slums have
also increased, taking the official number of slum
from 473 in 2003 to 597 in 2013.
• Officials say 13.86 lakh out of 84.25 lakh people
in Bangalore, which is 16.45%, live in slums.
• Bangalore district has 21.5 per cent of the total
slum population of Karnataka.
The Housing Crisis in Bangalore:
• In Karnataka, the urban poverty rate (at 32.6%) is higher than the rural poverty rate
and also higher than urban poverty rate of several other States.
• According to 2001 census there is a shortage of 1.76 lakh housing units in urban
Karnataka.
• Bangalore’s urban local body plans to spend 320 crores on housing in 2009-2010, all
of these for redeveloping just 13 slums under the centrally funded JNNURM scheme.
• An analysis by the National Institute for Urban Affairs has shown that Bangalore
Municipality, on average, has spent just 9 percent of their slum development budget
from 2001 to 2007.
• The construction boom in Bangalore has meant that there has been a lot of
migration to meet the huge demand in the labour market.
Slums in the City:
Dwellings:
• There are very limited affordable options for this strata of the society when it
comes to housing in Bangalore.
• They have the possibility of either moving to a rented dwelling in another slum
which is similar to their present condition or even worse sometimes.
• The EWS housing provided by the government agencies mainly BDA- Bangalore
Development Authority and Karnataka State Slum Development Board are
inadequate to cater to the large numbers and is either inaccessible because of
its eligibility criterion or unaffordable.
• The current prices for a 1BHK EWS flat constructed by the BDA is between
Rs 7.25 lacs and Rs 10 lacs. This excludes the registration and application
fees.
• The current prices for a 1BHK EWS flat constructed by the BDA is between
Rs 7.25 lacs and Rs 10 lacs. This excludes the registration and application
fees.
• There was the basic model of 250 sq ft, premium model of 350 sqft and deluxe model 450
sq ft meant for EWS category.
• The price was 3.75 lakh, 5.5 lakh and 7.5 lakh.
• These were upgraded later after issuing a notice that the costs were wrongly estimated,
such that EWS category flats were priced between 7.5 lakh to 8.2 lakh in various
areas, while for general quota, 1 BHK flats were priced between 9.5 lakh and 11.2 lakh.
Kalaburagi City:
• Kalaburagi’ (Formerly Gulbarga), which means a stony land in Kannada, is a growing city
situated in the north-eastern part of Karnataka State.
• Kalaburagi city has an area of 64.00 km2.
• As recorded in the Census of India(2011):
Population: 532,031
11% of the city’s population is living in slums.
There are 60 slums, covering an area of
1.48 sq. km spread over central and local govt.
and private land.
Out of these 60 slums, 42 slums are notified
and the remaining 18 are non notified.
Slums in Karnataka Karnataka Slum Area
When the slum map was overlaid on the model output, it was shown that in Kalaburagi
city, 97% (1.5 km2) of slum areas are present in the most attractive zone for slum
development whilst the remaining 3% of slum areas are located in the moderately
attractive zone for slum development.
• In Kalaburagi, slum expansion arises
mostly on un-used, un-protected and un-
suitable government land, along roads,
railway lines and near the lake.
• It has been observed that a large number
of slums exist in the central part of the city
but there is a strong possibility of further
slum expansion in moderately attractive
zones along linear features such as roads
and railway lines in peripheral areas of the
city.
• This is because more than 8.7 km2 of open
land, such as agricultural land without
crops and barren land, is present in the
moderately attractive zone and only
1.5 km2 of open land is present in the most
attractive areas for slum growth.
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