Urban Planning positive/negatives

• Mumbai resettlement scheme


  Trying to improve lives
• Eligibility for rehabitation


  • Slum structures existing prior to 1/1/1995
  • Slum dwellers get a self contained 21m squared carpet area tenement free of cost
  • No financial involvement from the government
• Improvements in rehabitated areas


  • Clean water that is not contaminated which will reduce disease
  • Sewage pipes meaning there are less diseases caused by open sewage
  • Cleaner with no asbestos or rats which can give bubonic plague
  • Windows for ventilation so there will be clean fresh air and it will be less stuffy
  • Outdoor clean safe areas that children can play in so they are not in open sewage or rubbish trips which will decrease illnesses and injuries
• Rehabitation


  • Less community spirit and people do nor spend as much time with neighbors
  • People may be further away from their jobs/education
• 15300 have been rehabited which is only 13% of the aim
• 230 projects are stalled due to lack of money