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50% of Mumbai's population live in shanty towns e.g. Dharavi
largest slum in Asia
100,000 makeshift homes of corrugated iron, plastic sheeting, wood etc. |
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little/no clean water or sanitation
open sewers
illegal electricity supplies
close to the financial district of Mumbai, therefore on prime land for redevelopment |
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| what is Vision Mumbai and when did it start? |
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large scale plan -to tackle Mumbai's problems such as widespread slums
-to turn the city into a world class, slum free city with "affordable housing for all" by 2015
began in 2004 |
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| what will the Dharavi Redevlopment Project do? (3) |
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provide facilities e.g. water, sanitation, schools, clinics
slum dwellers will exchange illegal shanty homes for free 225 sq ft flats in high rise blocks
new jobs provided in e.g. jewellery, ceramics and leather factories built on five industrial plants |
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| jointly the government and private developers |
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| are all the slum dwellers happy? (5) |
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flats too small?
have to pay for water and electricity
no thriving "cottage industry"
too generous to private developers
should be "bottom up" |
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| what do self-help schemes physically give people? |
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materials to rebuild homes
or low interest loans to finance this (from city authorities or NGOs) |
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| what can these schemes entail? (2) |
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replacing a "shack" made of wood and plastic sheeting with a simple house made of concrete blocks and a tiled roof
providing water taps, latrines, schools and rubbish disposal |
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| what sort of groups do people work in? |
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| chawls- clusters of streets or houses containing about 50-100 people |
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| why is self-help popular with the shanty town dwellers? |
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| THEY make decisions and have controls over the improvements/changes |
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| what does SPARC stand for? |
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| Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres |
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| one of the largest Indian NGOs oworking on housing and infrastructure issues for the urban poor |
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| the communities it serves, empowering them |
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| what are its projects? (4) |
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setting up community centres
encouraging slum dwellers to join saving schemes
offering micro-credit which allows people to borrow money in order to set up small businesses
improving sanitation, water provision and affordable housing |
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| what does PROUD stand for? |
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| People's Responsible Organization for United Dharavi |
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it organises neighbourhoods into chawls
to improve quality of life e.g. housing conditions and sanitation |
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