Mumbai, the SRS scheme, a debate on slum rehabilitation policy

[Christina Sam Yue Chi, Yâsimîn Vautor yasimin@ifrance.com, Aurelia Savery saveryaure@gmail.com et Irene Fernandez mailto:2005perufer2004@yahoo.es - 2005]

The SRS scheme is a specific program of slum rehabilitation in Mumbai. After the fail of many slum interventions programs, this current policy since 1995 aims to turn slum settlements into block housing. This program involves private builders´ financial participation. It enables them to develop housing projects on the land concerned by the policy, as they relocate in the same time slum dwellers settled there. The scheme allows building more units as sell units component. The sell of these units thanks to the high land value in Mumbai, enables to relocate slum dwellers for free and ensure in the same time a profit to private builders.We consider that even the SRS scheme provides new houses for slum dwellers and better amenities; its intervention depends on the private market. The availability of the scheme is restricted by certain specific conditions, for example it concerns only high value land in Mumbai, and it excludes certain situations of slum settlements as the pavement dwellers…