Under PMAY 2.0, which subsumed slum redevelopment in other verticals, Centre targets construction of 3 crore new houses — 2 crore in rural areas & 1 crore in cities — over next 5 yrs.
About 1,100 of 1,862 beneficiaries have already moved in from jhuggis at Bhoomiheen Camp. Teething problems such as hard drinking water are being looked after by 12 DDA officials.
In a rapidly urbanising India, the exclusion of urban poor from energy access will have severe long-term implications on their health and economic development.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
One can sympathise at a human level. However:
India is the world’s most populous nation with no population control measures whatsoever; heavily deforested, environmentally degraded, severely polluted (Delhi the most polluted city in the world); we are a nation of scofflaws and jugaad in the negative sense of the word, inching towards the limits of non governance.
Unless we at individual level make concentrated effort to be law abiding and the govt enforces law impartially, we are enroute to becoming what a US Ambassador to India once famously described India as – a functioning anarchy.
Govt land, illegal construction encroaching onto adjacent railway tracks etc. If people are going to exchange their votes for squatter rights and then use jugaad to game the system to make pukka houses and obtain documents, the underlying premise is malafide.
There is a saying – In a democracy people get the govt they elect and they deserve.
One can sympathise at a human level. However:
India is the world’s most populous nation with no population control measures whatsoever; heavily deforested, environmentally degraded, severely polluted (Delhi the most polluted city in the world); we are a nation of scofflaws and jugaad in the negative sense of the word, inching towards the limits of non governance.
Unless we at individual level make concentrated effort to be law abiding and the govt enforces law impartially, we are enroute to becoming what a US Ambassador to India once famously described India as – a functioning anarchy.
Govt land, illegal construction encroaching onto adjacent railway tracks etc. If people are going to exchange their votes for squatter rights and then use jugaad to game the system to make pukka houses and obtain documents, the underlying premise is malafide.
There is a saying – In a democracy people get the govt they elect and they deserve.