NEW DELHI: About two in five households in Kolkata are not documents of title or possession, while one in four lives in fear of being evicted without legal advice.In Mumbai, 30% of households do not have ownership or lease documents and one in five feel insecure against eviction, says the UN Development Millennium Goals Report 2012.
Posted on Monday, the report says the most visible violation of housing rights faced by urban poor today is the practice of eviction without due process of law.Despite the existence of property or possession of documents between the clear majorities in all the cities surveyed, the uncertainty about possible eviction was a high - ranging from 45% of the people of Lagos to 20% in Sao Paulo .
In April 2011, UN-Habitat Governing Council adopted a resolution to implement strategies and frameworks mainly around improving the security of tenure. At the beginning of MDG monitoring, security of tenure was selected as one of the five indicators to assess progress on the goal of slums.
The latest results from the National Survey sample for the period between July 2008 and June 2009 show about 49,000 existing slums in urban areas of the country, both reported and unreported. The corresponding numbers as previous surveys for 2002 and 1993 were approximately 52,000 and 56,000, respectively.
The ministry of statistics and program implementation says it has been a decline in the number of urban slums by 13% over about 15 years since 1993. The percentage of reported and unreported, urban slums in India is still the same in 2008-09 and 2002 at 50.6% and 49.4% respectively.
According to the United Nations, slums are an urban phenomenon and in 2020, the goal is to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers."Slums are an urban phenomenon and represent an imbalance between urban migration and economic growth within the city itself. In India, the slum data were collected for the first time in Census 2001 for towns and cities with urban population of 50,000 or more. about 640 cities in 26 states reported the existence of slums, "says the report.
Around 42.6 million people consisting of 8.2 million households residing in slums of these cities in 2001. The slum population estimate for 1991 is 46.26 million, while slum dwellers by 2001 is estimated 61.82 million showing a growth of 15.56%.Armed conflicts and violence also uprooted more than 4 million people in 2011, either within or outside the borders of their nations. This is the highest number in years
Posted on Monday, the report says the most visible violation of housing rights faced by urban poor today is the practice of eviction without due process of law.Despite the existence of property or possession of documents between the clear majorities in all the cities surveyed, the uncertainty about possible eviction was a high - ranging from 45% of the people of Lagos to 20% in Sao Paulo .
In April 2011, UN-Habitat Governing Council adopted a resolution to implement strategies and frameworks mainly around improving the security of tenure. At the beginning of MDG monitoring, security of tenure was selected as one of the five indicators to assess progress on the goal of slums.
The latest results from the National Survey sample for the period between July 2008 and June 2009 show about 49,000 existing slums in urban areas of the country, both reported and unreported. The corresponding numbers as previous surveys for 2002 and 1993 were approximately 52,000 and 56,000, respectively.
The ministry of statistics and program implementation says it has been a decline in the number of urban slums by 13% over about 15 years since 1993. The percentage of reported and unreported, urban slums in India is still the same in 2008-09 and 2002 at 50.6% and 49.4% respectively.
According to the United Nations, slums are an urban phenomenon and in 2020, the goal is to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers."Slums are an urban phenomenon and represent an imbalance between urban migration and economic growth within the city itself. In India, the slum data were collected for the first time in Census 2001 for towns and cities with urban population of 50,000 or more. about 640 cities in 26 states reported the existence of slums, "says the report.
Around 42.6 million people consisting of 8.2 million households residing in slums of these cities in 2001. The slum population estimate for 1991 is 46.26 million, while slum dwellers by 2001 is estimated 61.82 million showing a growth of 15.56%.Armed conflicts and violence also uprooted more than 4 million people in 2011, either within or outside the borders of their nations. This is the highest number in years
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