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Institutional Intervention in Infrastructure Development, a Contemporary Approach for Up-Liftment of Urban Slums: A Case Study of Raghunathpur Slum, DumuDuma Mouza, Bhubaneswar
Authors: Partha Pratim Karmakar,Santosh Misra,Rohit Singh
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Abstract
Slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing and poor civic
amenities. While slums differ in size and other characteristics from country to country, most lack in reliable
sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement and other basic services.
Slum residences vary from shanty houses to densely-built dwellings with poor-quality design, construction and
maintenance. Slums form and grow in many different parts of the world for many different reasons like rapid
rural-to-urban migration, economic stagnation, high unemployment, poverty, informal economy, poor planning,
political disturbance, natural disasters, social conflicts, etc. Strategies tried to reduce and transform slums in
different countries, with varying degrees of success, include a combination of slum removal, slum relocation,
slum upgrading, urban planning with city wide infrastructure development, and public housing projects. The
objective of the present paper is, to analyse the impact of institutional interventions in infrastructure development
on slum settlement and their subsequent growth pattern.