Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board News Items
DUSIB is in news often. Below please find links to news items on the same spanning a few months. Suit yourself. This is the first in series of posts on lists of news items on DUSIB. DUSIB stands for Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board.
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“.. authorities in the national capital failed to persuade more than 1,100 homeless people to temporarily move to night shelters, .. roughly 1,167 people scattered across the city have rejected repeated attempts by rescue teams to place them in night shelters. .. The reluctance shown by the homeless people to shift to night shelters stems from a set of reasons such as unhygienic conditions, fear of theft, lack of space, and brawls involving junkies. .. The largest concentration of such homeless people, not willing to move to shelters, are in areas such as the Kashmere Gate ISBT, Hanuman Mandir in Connaught Place and AIIMS. According to a list attached to the letter, the numbers are: 200 near the ISBT, 200 near AIIMS, 150 in Safdarjung, 50 near Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and 20 near Hanuman Mandir. .. Currently, DUSIB's 261 night shelters, run through NGOs on contract basis, have a capacity to house 20,934 people. Singh claimed the peak occupancy during nights this winter season has been 13,810. Of the 261 shelters, 83 are concrete structures, 115 are porta cabins, while the rest, save one, are tents. Every night, a subway near AIIMS is thrown open for the families of outstation patients thronging the premier hospital to take shelter.”
This is from January 2018.
“DUSIB clears 5,000 flats for slum dwellers
Land approved for 50 mohalla clinics
Five thousand new flats for slum residents and allocation of land for 50 mohalla clinics .. DUSIB approved the construction of 5,012 flats at an estimated cost of ₹654.33 crore, .. In-situ policy These flats would be under the DUSIB’s in-situ rehabilitation policy, whereby permanent housing would be constructed on the site where the slums are located. ..Of the 5,012 flats, a total of 3,780 apartments would be made at Pocket-F in Bhalswa-Jahangirpuri at a cost of ₹493.40 crore. A total of 784 flats would be made at Dev Nagar in Karol Bagh at a cost of ₹102.28 crore. Another 448 flats would be constructed at Kasturba Niketan in Lajpat Nagar at a cost of ₹58.65 crore. Each of the buildings would be 14-floors tall. The DUSIB will ask the government for ₹500 crore to get the project started. ..”
This is from August 2017.
“Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) will build toilets for the people living in JJ clusters located along railway tracks and other locations in Delhi. Railways, DDA, MCDs have agreed to issue 'no objection certificate' (NOC) for construction of toilets, .. all slum clusters, located on the railway tracks, get a toilet in the area. Some of the clusters have the population over 12,000 and there is no space left to construct a toilet, .. There are 26 JJ colonies on lands belonging to Railways, DDA, MCDs and Government of Uttar Pradesh. .. and in respect of four colonies with dense jhuggis in Jhakira-Charamandi area, mobile toilet vehicles will be deployed to begin with. NGOs would be involved to talk to the local people and provide land for building permanent toilets. .. There are 10 JJ Colonies located on railway lands in Bhim Nagar behind Nangloi Bus Depot, Rakhi Market Jhakira, Shiv Basti near Patel Nagar Railway Station, Pilli Kothi lahore and PulMithai edge at lahore Gate, Under Mansoravar Metro Flyover, SabjiMandi Railway Station, A Block Shalimar Bagh, Shakurbasti, MatialaMandir and Priyadarshini Colony.”
This is from July 2017.
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“.. The Delhi government is mulling requesting lieutenant governor (LG) Anil Baijal to hand over Kathputli Colony to the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) for rehabilitation of its displaced residents, sources said. .. The DDA had handed over rehabilitation of the Kathputli Colony, in west Delhi, to a private company, Raheja Developers, in 2007. “The 13 acres of land (Kathputli Colony) worth Rs 1,000 crore was handed over to Raheja Developers for Rs 6 crore and they have not done anything in the past nine years. This is a scam,” the official said. .. “Of the 13 acres of Kathputli Colony, a huge portion of land will be used by the private builder (Raheja Developers) for construction and sale of a large number of flats and commercial space in open market to private people in this prime location of Delhi,” .. The official said the developer would earn a “profit of Rs 700 crore” through this and said that if handed over to the government, they would make more flats available to the public and save crores of rupees of public money. ..”
This is from January 2018.
“Residents of a slum in north Delhi's Sangam Park could become the first lot to be rehabilitated to permanent housing in the vicinity of their jhuggis, as the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) gets ready to build flats here. While the DDA has constructed flats in the place of slums in the past, this would be the first in-situ housing development project for the DUSIB. A tender asking for bids to construct a total of 582 flats was floated ..”
This is from July 2017.
“Urban Development Ministry today sought action plans from Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) and the three municipal corporations for the construction of toilets to make the national capital open defecation-free at the earliest. .. In Delhi, DUSIB has been entrusted with the task of building community and public toilet seats whose requirement is assessed to be 27,000 toilet seats of which 18,000 have been reported to have been made available so far. The municipal corporations were asked to enable construction of individual household toilets ..”
This is from June 2017.
“.. slum rehabilitation scheme .. In the first phase, .. shift residents of slums and JJ clusters living in-and-around northwest Delhi’s Sultanpuri area. .. As per the previous survey conducted in 2014-15, Delhi has 675 slum and JJ clusters. .. However, the houses under the new scheme will not be free. General category beneficiaries will have to pay ₹1.12 lakh for the 25-sq metre flat, while scheduled caste allottees will pay ₹1,000. Above this, ₹30,000 will be charged in both categories as maintenance cost for five years. As land in Delhi also lies with other agencies like the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the policy lays down a separate framework. “For cases where land is not under the Delhi government, 40% of the plot would be given to the land-owning agency for commercial revenue generation and the government shall build EWS houses on the remaining 60% of the land,” an official said. ..”
This is from December 2017.
“.. About 26,861 of the 28,344 flats constructed in the past decade by the Delhi government agencies for the have-nots lie vacant in different parts of the city .. Located a kilometre away from Mundka station on Metro's Green Line in west Delhi Savda Ghevra is home to 60,000 people living in 10,000 houses ... Currently, slums are rehabilitated in Delhi under the land laws which deal with encroachment of public property. The central Act for slums -- Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1956, which defines slums as ‘habitations not fit for habitations’ and not encroachments – is hardly invoked. The rehabilitation exercise in Kathputli, for example, was guided by DDA’s ‘in-situ’ redevelopment scheme under its master plan which derives its legality from the Delhi Development Act, 1957. .. It has been proven worldwide, Roy said, that the poor do not want to live in flats because they cannot work there. “Where will a rickshaw puller keep his vehicle or a vegetable vendor keep his cart?” he asked. So, what is the solution? “Why not provide better civic services to them where they live instead of making new houses. Give them plots and let them build their own house,” Roy suggested. ..”
This is from November 2017.
“.. DUSIB’s winter action plan 2017-18 for night shelters will be rolled out on November 15. Records with the DUSIB suggest as of now, they have been able to set up 183 night shelters across the city. Out of this, 73 are permanent buildings, 109 are porta-cabin shelters and one has been set up in a tent. Together, all of these can accommodate 15,774 people, officials said. .. Explaining the reason for installing TVs, Singh said, “We observed the homeless need some kind of entertainment to keep them glued, otherwise they wander around at night which is unsafe. Many (the homeless) prefer to live along the roads because they get food, money and warm clothes from the public. So, TV sets will be fixed at all the night shelters including the porta-cabins.” ..”
This is from November 2017.
“.. The Centre's urban housing scheme is set to be implemented in Delhi, nearly two years after the launch .. Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) scheme, the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) inks agreement with state governments for implementation of the scheme. .. Some land in the national capital also lies with the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) which is under the Delhi government. ..”
This is from April 2017.
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Some tags: Homeless, Shelter, Poor, Slum.
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