(a) whether a large section of the urban poor live in unhygienic conditions because of inadequate housing shelters and basic amenities;
(b) if so, the number of urban poor living in such conditions, State-wise; and
(c) the steps being taken to provide them shelter and gainful employment?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY
ALLEVIATION ( KUMARI SELJA )
(a)&(b): Yes, Sir. State-wise details of the urban slum
population as per Census-2001 is annexed.
(c): The Government has launched Jawaharlal Nehru National
Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to assist cities and towns in
taking up housing and infrastructural facilities for the urban
poor in 63 select cities under the Basic Services to the Urban
Poor (BSUP) Programme. For non-Mission cities, for taking up
housing and slum upgradation programmes the Integrated Housing
and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) has been launched. Both
BSUP and IHSDP Programmes are under implementation since
December-2005.
Further, to ameliorate the living conditions of the urban
poor, an employment oriented urban poverty alleviation programme
namely, Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) is being
implemented on all India basis since December-1997. Under
SJSRY, urban poor are assisted to set-up individual/ group Micro
Enterprises for self-employment and are also provided wage
employment by utilizing their labour in the construction of
socially and economically useful assets.
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA USQ NO.655 FOR 2.3.2007.
STATEMENT-1.1
TOTAL URBAN POPULATION, POPULATION OF CITIES/TOWNS REPORTING SLUMS AND SLUM POPULATION
IN SLUM AREAS - INDIA, STATES, UNION TERRITORIES - 2001
Sl. State/Union Number Total urban Population of Total slum Percentage of No. territory# of population cities/towns population slum population cities/ of State/UT reporting to total of towns slums Urban Popul- repor- popu- ation ting lation cities/ slums of towns States/ repo- UTs rting slums
INDIA 640 283,741,818 184,352,421 42,578,150 15.0 23.1 1. JAMMU & KASHMIR 5 2,516,638 1,446,148 268,513 10.7 18.6 2. PUNJAB 27 8,262,511 5,660,268 1,159,561 14.0 20.5 3. CHANDIGARH# 1 808,515 808,515 107,125 13.2 13.2 4. UTTARANCHAL 6 2,179,074 1,010,188 195,470 9.0 19.3 5. HARYANA 22 6,115,304 4,296,670 1,420,407 23.2 33.1 6. DELHI# 16 12,905,780 11,277,586 2,029,755 15.7 18.0 7 RAJASTHAN 26 13,214,375 7,668,508 1,294,106 9.8 16.9 8. UTTAR PRADESH 69 34,539,582 21,256,870 4,395,276 12.7 20.7 9. BIHAR 23 8,681,800 4,814,512 531,481 6.1 11.0 10. TRIPURA 1 545,750 189,998 29,949 5.5 15.8 11. MEGHALAYA 1 454,111 132,867 86,304 19.0 65.0 12. ASSAM 7 3,439,240 1,371,881 82,289 2.4 6.0 13. WEST BENGAL 59 22,427,251 15,184,596 4,115,980 18.4 27.1 14. JHARKHAND 11 5,993,741 2,422,943 301,569 5.0 12.4 15. ORISSA 15 5,517,238 2,838,014 629,999 11.4 22.2 16. CHHATTISGARH 12 4,185,747 2,604,933 817,908 19.5 31.4 17. MADHYA PRADESH 43 15,967,145 9,599,007 2,417,091 15.1 25.2 18. GUJARAT 41 18,930,250 12,697,360 1,866,797 9.9 14.7 19. MAHARASHTRA 61 41,100,980 33,635,219 11,202,762 27.3 33.3 20. ANDHRA PRADESH 77 20,808,940 16,090,585 5,187,493 24.9 32.2 21. KARNATAKA 35 17,961,529 11,023,376 1,402,971 7.8 12.7 22. GOA 2 670,577 175,536 14,482 2.2 8.3 23. KERALA 13 8,266,925 3,196,622 64,556 0.8 2.0 24. TAMIL NADU 63 27,483,998 14,337,225 2,866,893 10.4 20.0 25. PONDICHERRY# 3 648,619 513,010 73,169 11.3 14.3 26. A & N ISLANDS# 1 116,198 99,984 16,244 14.0 16.2