Indian Society Part 6: Urban Informality — Slums, Hawkers and Housing Schemes, Exam-Ready Notes

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Informality is the default mode of Indian urbanisation; instruments have names.

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  1. Base numbers
  2. Instruments
  3. Gaps examiners like
  4. Revise in 30 seconds

Base numbers

  • Census 2011: 65 million slum residents, 17.4% of urban households.
  • Street vendors about 1 crore; PM SVANidhi crossed 89 lakh loans.

Instruments

  • PMAY-U 2.0 (2024): 1 crore additional houses with affordable rental (ARHC) tilt.
  • Street Vendors Act 2014: surveys, vending zones, town vending committees.
  • Odisha JAGA mission: slum titling model cited globally.

Gaps examiners like

  • Rental market failure, land titling, eviction-vs-regularisation standoffs.
  • Incremental upgrading reality vs slum-free rhetoric.

Revise in 30 seconds

  • 2011: 65 mn slum residents.
  • PMAY-U 2.0: 1 crore houses, rental tilt.
  • Street Vendors Act: 2014.
  • SVANidhi: 89 lakh+ loans.

Quick revision

  • Census 2011: 65 million slum residents, 17.4% of urban households.
  • Street vendors about 1 crore; PM SVANidhi crossed 89 lakh loans.
  • PMAY-U 2.0 (2024): 1 crore additional houses with affordable rental (ARHC) tilt.
  • Street Vendors Act 2014: surveys, vending zones, town vending committees.
  • Odisha JAGA mission: slum titling model cited globally.
  • Rental market failure, land titling, eviction-vs-regularisation standoffs.