BHUBANESWAR: In an unprecedented transfer described via industrialist Ratan Tata as ‘earth-shaking’, and which brought on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to take recourse to British writer Aldous Huxley, Odisha on Monday equipped land rights certificates to two,000 landless slum dwellers and promised to increase trendy urban habitats entire with roads, side road lights, parks and playgrounds for them.
The initiative is the culmination of the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2017, notified in October final yr, and is predicted to help the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the meeting and Lok Sabha election scheduled for early next yr. Under the Act, the government had promised to provide 45 square metre of land to landless slum dwellers in municipal cities and 60 square metre in notified area councils (smaller cities).
The government on Monday also launched the Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission to make sure habitable communities and infrastructure in slums. Naveen, who passed over the land documents to the primary lot of beneficiaries from 9 small cities in the Puri and Ganjam districts at an match in Chhatrapur, mentioned, “As leader minister, I would love to look Odisha at the vanguard of making a brave new world.”
His sentiments had been echoed via Tata, whose Tata Trusts used to be given the duty of surveying the feasibility of the Act. “Odisha as a progressive state will certainly fulfill the hopes and aspirations of slum dwellers who are the lifeline of towns,” the pioneer mentioned. Terming the instance as ‘historical’, Tata assured “wholehearted beef up’ of Tata Trusts to ‘convert the dream of the chief minister into reality’.
Besides Tata, the development used to be attended via visionary British architect Norman Foster and state government dignitaries and officers. “Odisha’s initiative could have a ripple effect across the world. It will give a signal to the global community and assist their involvement in this kind of law (giving land rights and houses to the landless),” Foster mentioned.
Though several states have extended land rights to the landless, Odisha’s transfer to offer slum dwellers with trendy urban facilities is the primary of its kind in the country, the government mentioned. The state government plans to increase the benefits to a million slum dwellers (round 3 lakh families) throughout 2,500 slums within a yr.
In March, the government signed an MoU with Tata Trusts for beef up on slum redevelopment. The Madrid-based Norman Foster Foundation, which has experience in urban design and structure, has also shown an pastime in the venture. “We will figure out the modalities on how the root can also be involved,” mentioned housing and urban construction secretary G Mathivathanan.
The state’s intervention would pass a long way beyond giving slum dwellers land rights. “Through Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission, the government will ensure that the best-possible trendy infrastructure for redeveloping slums into right kind residing areas,” he added.
Slum rights activists, on the other hand, expressed skepticism about the government’s transfer. “This is usually a pioneering style if carried out with sincerity. But the government has given land rights to just a handful of people, with the election a yr away. I don’t think the bold targets it has set can also be met so quickly,” mentioned Pramila Behera, normal secretary of Basti Suraksha Manch, an outfit running for the well-being of slum dwellers.
The initiative is the culmination of the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2017, notified in October final yr, and is predicted to help the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the meeting and Lok Sabha election scheduled for early next yr. Under the Act, the government had promised to provide 45 square metre of land to landless slum dwellers in municipal cities and 60 square metre in notified area councils (smaller cities).
The government on Monday also launched the Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission to make sure habitable communities and infrastructure in slums. Naveen, who passed over the land documents to the primary lot of beneficiaries from 9 small cities in the Puri and Ganjam districts at an match in Chhatrapur, mentioned, “As leader minister, I would love to look Odisha at the vanguard of making a brave new world.”
His sentiments had been echoed via Tata, whose Tata Trusts used to be given the duty of surveying the feasibility of the Act. “Odisha as a progressive state will certainly fulfill the hopes and aspirations of slum dwellers who are the lifeline of towns,” the pioneer mentioned. Terming the instance as ‘historical’, Tata assured “wholehearted beef up’ of Tata Trusts to ‘convert the dream of the chief minister into reality’.
Besides Tata, the development used to be attended via visionary British architect Norman Foster and state government dignitaries and officers. “Odisha’s initiative could have a ripple effect across the world. It will give a signal to the global community and assist their involvement in this kind of law (giving land rights and houses to the landless),” Foster mentioned.
Though several states have extended land rights to the landless, Odisha’s transfer to offer slum dwellers with trendy urban facilities is the primary of its kind in the country, the government mentioned. The state government plans to increase the benefits to a million slum dwellers (round 3 lakh families) throughout 2,500 slums within a yr.
In March, the government signed an MoU with Tata Trusts for beef up on slum redevelopment. The Madrid-based Norman Foster Foundation, which has experience in urban design and structure, has also shown an pastime in the venture. “We will figure out the modalities on how the root can also be involved,” mentioned housing and urban construction secretary G Mathivathanan.
The state’s intervention would pass a long way beyond giving slum dwellers land rights. “Through Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission, the government will ensure that the best-possible trendy infrastructure for redeveloping slums into right kind residing areas,” he added.
Slum rights activists, on the other hand, expressed skepticism about the government’s transfer. “This is usually a pioneering style if carried out with sincerity. But the government has given land rights to just a handful of people, with the election a yr away. I don’t think the bold targets it has set can also be met so quickly,” mentioned Pramila Behera, normal secretary of Basti Suraksha Manch, an outfit running for the well-being of slum dwellers.
In historic move, Odisha gives land rights to 2,000 slum dwellers
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