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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Despite ownership documents, poor fear eviction without notice-Kounteya Sinha

Despite ownership documents, poor fear eviction without notice-Kounteya Sinha

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published Published on Jul 3, 2012   modified Modified on Jul 3, 2012

Around two in five households in Kolkata don't have ownership or tenancy documents, while one in four live in the fear of being evicted without legal notice. 

In Mumbai, 30% households don't have ownership or tenancy documents and one in five feel insecure against eviction, says the UN's Millennium Development Goals Report, 2012. 

Released on Monday, the report says the most visible violation of housing rights faced by the urban poor today is the practice of eviction without due legal process. 

Despite existence of ownership or tenancy documents among clear majorities in all the cities surveyed, insecurity regarding possible eviction was found to be high — ranging from 45% of inhabitants in Lagos to 20% in Sao Paolo. 

In April, 2011, the UN-Habitat Governing Council adopted a resolution to put in place strategies and frameworks mainly around improved security of tenure. At the outset of MDG monitoring, security of tenure was selected as one of five indicators for assessing progress on the slum target. 

The latest National Sample Survey results for the period between July 2008 and June 2009 reveal about 49,000 slums existed in the urban areas of the country — both notified and non-notified. The corresponding numbers as per earlier surveys for 2002 and 1993 were about 52,000 and 56,000, respectively. 

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation claims there has been a decline in the number of urban slums by about 13% in a period of about 15 years since 1993. The percentage share of notified and non-notified urban slums in India remains the same in 2008-09 as in 2002 at 50.6% and 49.4%, respectively. 

According to the United Nations, slums are an urban phenomenon and by 2020, the target is to bring about significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers. 

"Slums are an urban phenomenon and they represent an imbalance between migration into cities and economic growth within the city itself. In India, slum data have been collected for the first time in Census 2001 for towns/cities having urban population of 50,000 or more. Around 640 towns spread over 26 states reported existence of slums," the report says. Around 42.6 million people consisting of 8.2 million households resided in slums of these towns in 2001. The estimated slum population for 1991 is 46.26 million whereas the estimated slum population for 2001 is 61.82 million showing a growth of 15.56%. 

Armed conflict and violence also uprooted more than 4 million people in 2011, either inside or outside the borders of their nations. This is the highest number in many years. 


The Times of India, 3 July, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Despite-ownership-documents-poor-fear-eviction-without-notice/articleshow/14621051.cms


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