THE MINISTER OF HOUSING AND URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION (KUMARI SELJA)
(a) & (b): The National Slum Development Programme has been discontinued and subsumed
into the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) after launching of
the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) w.e.f. 03.12.2005.
(c) & (d): The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has used Slum population
data estimated by the Town & Country Planning Organisation (TCPO) for its Slum upgradation
programme/schemes. The TCPO has estimated trends in Slum population as under:
year Slum population
1981 27.9 Million
1991 46.2 Million
2001 61.8 Million
It may also be mentioned that the Census of India, 2001 conducted enumeration of slum
population in 640 cities and towns with population of 50,000 or more. Subsequently, at the
request of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, the Registrar General of
India has conducted enumeration of slum population in 1,103 towns with population between
20,000 and 50,000, which reveals that the slum population in the 1,743 cities and towns
(where enumeration took place) was 52.4 million.
The Government has launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with
effect from 3.12.2005 to address the issues of provision of housing and civic amenities in
slums in addition to city-wise infrastructure facilities. The Government has also started
the scheme of Interest Subsidy for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP) envisaging the provision
of interest subsidy to the tune of 5% to Economic Weaker Section/Lower Income Group
beneficiaries on loan upto Rs.1 lakh. The Government has also launched a new scheme called
Affordable Housing in Partnership for construction of 10 lakh houses for Economic Weaker
Section / Low Income Group and Middle Income Group categories. Further, the Government has
announced a new Scheme called Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for the slum dwellers and urban poor.
This Scheme aims at providing support to States that are willing to provide property rights
to slum dwellers. The Government’s effort would be to create Slum free India through the
implementation of RAY.
