Chapter on Housing

REAL ESTATE (REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT) ACT, 2013

  • MOHUPA had drafted Real estate (Regulation of Development) Bill, 2013 in consultation with all stakeholders to establish uniform regulatory environment to enforce disclosure, fair practice and accountability norms in real estate transaction (buying or selling), and to provide adjudication machinery for speedy dispute redressal.
  • The Union Cabinet approved the Bill on 4th June, 2013. The Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha on 14th August, 2013 and then referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development for examination.
  • The Parliamentary Standing Committee laid its report in both Houses of Parliament in February, 2014.

SWARNA JAYANTI SHAHARI ROZGAR YOIANA (SJSRY)

Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana was launched by the Government of India on 1st December, 1997 by subsuming the earlier 3 urban poverty alleviation programmes, namely:

  1. Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP)
  2. Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY)
  3. Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP)

The SJSRY was comprehensively revampede.f. 2009-10 with the following components:

  1. Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP)
  2. Urban Women Self-help Programme (UWSP)
  3. Skill Training for Employment Promotion amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP)
  4. Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP)
  5. Urban Community Development Network (UCDN)

NATIONAL URBAN LIVELIHOODS MISSION (NULM)

  • MOHUPA has launched “National Urban Livelihoods Mission” on 24th September, 2013 replacing the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY).
  • The NULM focuses on organizing urban poor in self-help groups, creating opportunities for skill development leading to market-based employment and helping them to set up self-employment ventures by ensuring easy access to credit.
  • The Mission aims at providing shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner.
  • In addition, the Mission will also address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors.
  • The primary target of NULM is the urban poor, including the urban homeless.
  • The NULM has six major Components:
  1. Social Mobilizations and Institution Development (SM&ID): NULM envisages mobilisation of urban poor households into thrift and credit- based Self-help Groups (SHGS) and their federations/collective.
  2. Capacity Building and Training (CB&T): A multi-pronged approach is planned under NULM for continuous capacity building of SHGS and their government functionaries at Central, State and City/Town levels.
  3. Employment through Skills Training and Placement (EST&P): NULM will focus on providing assistance for skill development/upgrading of the urban poor to enhance their capacity for self-employment, or better salaried employment.
  4. Self-employment Programme (SEP): This component will focus on financial assistance to individuals/groups of urban poor for setting up gainful self-employment ventures suited to their skills, training, aptitude and local conditions.
  5. Support to Urban Street Vendors: This component will cover development of vendors market, credit enablement of vendors, socio-economic survey of street vendors, skill development and micro enterprises development.
  6. Shelter for Urban Homeless (SUH): Under this component, the construction of permanent shelter for the urban homeless will be supported.