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Homeless In Pune: Roofs For Migrants, Students Remain On PaperBy akansha, Section News
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has proposed the construction of youth hostels for migrant students in the draft budget for 2010-11. This when previous plans to accommodate the city's floating population have been non-starters.
"More than 1 lakh students come to Pune for education every year and they face a problem of accommodation. Youth hostels have been proposed to help them," said former standing committee chairman Nilesh Nikam who proposed the scheme.
 It is not the first time that the civic body has mooted such a scheme. In the 2008-09 budget, standing committee chairman Bapu Pathare had proposed the Rs 1-crore Dr Ambedkar hostel scheme. It never saw the light of the day. CITY STATS
The Government of India's `National Strategy for Urban Poor' project has sanctioned 1.1 million houses in India till date. The report by the committee for `Affordable Housing For All' has estimated that the urban housing shortage at the commencement of the 11th five-year plan is 24.71 million. In 2009-10, then standing committee chairman Sham Deshpande had proposed the Rajmata Jijau Gharkul project for rehabilitating hutment dwellers whose houses were razed till January 1, 2009. The scheme has remained on paper. Source: Times Of India By Radheshyam Jadhav Homeless in Pune: Roofs for migrants, students remain on paper Click On "Full Story" For More....
The civic body also sought to address the problems of urban poor by constructing dormitories where migrant job-seekers can stay for a minimal rent instead of living in slums. The central government has approved this project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). However, the civic body has failed to acquire land to push the project.
According to a survey by Shelter Associates, a city-based group working for the urban poor, about 25-30 per cent population of the city's slums is floating and faces a major accommodation crisis. Pratima Joshi of Shelter Associates said that this floating population in the absence of affordable accommodation lives in slums. "A policy to accommodate the floating population in the city is necessary," she added. The survey said that many from the low-income groups want their own accommodation but could not afford it The state government, to address the issue of the urban poor, considered replicating the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority's (MMRDA) rental housing policy in Pune. However, this can happen only if the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) becomes a reality. Its formation is still pending with the government. As another solution to the growing population and dwindling infrastructure in the city, the state government had mooted the Mumbai model in Pune where people travel to the city to work and return to the satellite nodes and townships.
Pune has a comprehensive mobility plan which has suggestions for various mass transport modes. The state government has also written to the Central Railway for suburban rail links to Daund, Mulshi and Lonavla. "Once the satellite townships come up around Pune, reasonable accommodation for the floating population would be easily available," said a state government official .
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