CENTRE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL EXCELLENCE

  PROJECTS

Delhi in Action for Slum Development: Bhagidari with Slum Dwellers; Government of Delhi

Sanjha Prayas under Bhagidari is a partnership of the Chief Minister, Smt. Shiela Dixit and slum dwellers in Delhi. CURE is consultant to the Bhagidari-Sanjha Prayas initiative launched in March 2007. Community mobilization has been started in 19 slum areas in Patparganj, Seemapuri and Shahadra constituencies and 11 blocks of Savda Ghevra, a new resettlement being developed in Delhi to relocate and house slum dwellers.


Initiatives under Sanjha Prayas have included a Safai Abhiyaan (cleanliness drive in all slum areas in partnership with MCD and DJB), Jal Mission (repair and maintenance of water supply infrastructure and improvement of water supply to all areas with DJB), Social welfare camps in Savda Ghevra (improving access to welfare schemes including transferring of pension holders from old to new areas with Welfare Department), Power camps (access to metered connections and resolving billing issues with NDPL and BSES) and Access to Livelihoods Programme (employment skills, employment and micro enterprise) through SC/ST Corporation and private sector partnerships.