(a) whether there is any scheme under the Ministry for providing housing
to minority communities;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) the provisions under the Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP),
Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) and Rajiv Awas
Yojana (RAY) for providing houses to minorities?
THE MINISTER OF HOUSING AND URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION (KUMARI SELJA)
(a) to (c): No, Madam. However, the Government launched the Jawaharlal
Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) on 3rd December, 2005 to
assist States/Union Territories to take up housing and infrastructural
facilities for the urban poor and slum dwellers in select 65 cities in
the country under the Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) Programme.
For other cities/towns, the Integrated Housing and Slum Development
Programme (IHSDP) was launched. The duration of JNNURM was seven years
beginning from the 2005-06. A minimum of 12% beneficiary contribution
was stipulated under these programmes. In case of SC/ST/BC/OBC/physically
handicapped and other weaker sections,it was 10%. Under Rajiv Awas Yojana
launched on 02.06.2011, States are required to include all the mission cities
of JNNURM, so as to complete the process begun; preferably cities with more
than 3 lakh population as per 2001 Census; and other smaller cities, with
due consideration to the criterion of pace of growth of the city, of slums
within the city; of predominance of minority population; areas where
property rights already stand assigned. The Slum-free City Plan under
RAY has been stipulated for a city as a whole, but within a city the
implementation of slum upgradation may require to be phased out and paced
as per the financial and resource capacity of the state and the city,
giving precedence to untenable slums and those with larger populations
of the deprived, i.e., the SC/ST and minorities.