I am in Delhi now. My morning flight took off in time at 7 am from DumDum but within minutes, there was a "technical fault" and there was an emergency landing back at DumDum. We were asked to change the aircraft. All this entailed a delay of 2 hours and I was late for the High Powered Meeting at the Urban Development Ministry. . . I was glad, however, that I could at least participate a little towards the end. I was made a member of a group on PPP, which will be headed by the Principal Secretary UD of Gujarat, Ms Gauri Kumar (IAS:1979).
The meeting of the High Powered Committe was chaired by Dr Ramachandran, Secretary, MoUD.
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In the CSMC meeting at MoHUPA, GOI told yet again of their concern for not not adopting a Whole-Slum-Approach under BSUP. They also appeared concerned at reports of poor worksmanship in some of the BSUP schemes.
- DS
If you don't mind, please explain 'Whole-slum-approach'under BSUP.
ReplyDeleteThis means that new houses should be given to ALL dwellers in a particular slum rather than few houses to many slums. For example:
ReplyDeleteSuppose we have Slum A with 50 families, slum B with 60 families and Slum C with 70 families. If there are funds for only 50 families, then, under the whole slum approach, only Slum A should be helped so that there is no discrimination within a Slum and the Slum A will cease to exist forever...On the contrary, in a non-Whole-Slum approach, the 50 new houses would have been allotted, perhaps, as 10 houses to Slum A, 15 to Slum B and 25 to Slum C.