RE-ROOTING RAIL CORRIDOR- HOPE FOR SLUM UPGRADATION- A CASE OF DELHI

FINDINGS:

According to the UN Habitat, 2006, slums typically have the following characteristics:
LACK OF WATER
LACK OF SANITATION
OVERCROWDING
NON-DURABLE STRUCTURES
INSECURE TENURE

It is estimated that, on average, a slum area that contains around 20% of a city’s population will have around 50% of its diseases.86% of the urban poor in Delhi are illiterate. 23 million children aged 5-14 are believed to work. Nearly 200,000 people migrated to Delhi every year between 1991 and 2001.Source: http://www.asha-india.org/news-and-information/facts-figures.The lives of hundreds of millions of slum dwellers are threatened by the lack of access to the most basic human requirements: water, sanitation, shelter, health, and education. The nature and extent of the daily challenges posed by existing slums are threatening.

World Bank 2008 survey stated that Developing countries will triple their entire urban built-up area, generating the same amount of urban area as the entire world had cumulatively generated by the year 2000. Mumbai holds Asia’s biggest single slum, which is larger than National population of Norway.

For a case Delhi, the national capital of India, has the country’s second-largest slum population. Due to the rapid urbanization process, the urban core of the city today is under intense pressure of growing demands. There has been considerable rise in the demands with increase no. of population over the year. This population comes in structure of informal pattern of urban sprawl around or inside the city.
The vision is to look at informal pattern as resource, which seeks integration with city, which is essential for mutual symbiosis. Major attributes will be decongesting slum through physical, economic, community and environmental development, with existing urban fabric. A prototype low cost development for rest Indian metro cities.