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Amenities in informal settlements to be mapped

The Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) is taking an initiative to map the amenities of informal settlements where 41% of Mumbai's urban population lives. The mapping will be conducted as part of an 11-day workshop on 'Ecologies of Inclusion', led by the faculty of KRVIA. The compiled recommendations and reports will be submitted to the authorities and made public.

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The Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) is taking an initiative to map the amenities of informal settlements where 41% of Mumbai's urban population lives. The mapping will be conducted as part of an 11-day workshop on 'Ecologies of Inclusion', led by the faculty of KRVIA. The compiled recommendations and reports will be submitted to the authorities and made public.

Shirish Joshi, assistant professor at KRVIA, said, "Currently, there are no specific studies as to the amenities that inhabitants of informal settlements can access. So, we wanted to record and collate this data, creating a framework that later our or any other organisation can use to base more surveys."

Of the 41% of urban population of Mumbai that live in informal settlements, only a small fraction has access to toilets, water, schools and municipal health facilities. Rehabilitation into formal housing schemes can take decades, if they do materialise at all. In the meantime, people are incrementally building their own homes, and it is being increasingly recognized that regardless of tenure, informal settlements must have access to basic amenities.

"We will be concentrating on one ward and study two informal settlements currently existing in that ward. We haven't narrowed down which ward we'll be studying yet, but we want students and professionals particularly from the field of urban planning, engineering and architecture students to apply for this course, although students from other courses are also welcome. It will help then gain an understanding of how nearly half the population of this city lives," added Joshi.

'Ecologies of Inclusion' looks at the access of communities in informal settlements to basic amenities of water, sanitation, transport, health and education.

The programme sees a value in using this process in enabling communities to collect and use data to procure their rights of access, thereby also strengthening their relationship with the local government.
The KRVIA is working on this in association with Kamla Raheja and Partners.

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