The Slum Rehabilitation Act 1995 was passed by the government of the India

India

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n state Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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 to protect the rights of slum

Slum

A slum, as defined by United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the...

 dwellers and promote the development

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 of slum areas. The Act protected from eviction

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 anyone who could produce a document proving they lived in the city of Mumbai

Mumbai

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 before January 1995, regardless if they lived on the pavement or other kinds of municipal land. The ACT was the result of policy development that included grassroots slum dweller organisations, particularly SPARC

Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers

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.

Through the Act pavement dwellers

Pavement dwellers

Pavement dwellers refers to Mumbai dwellings built on the footpaths/pavements of city streets, which use the walls or fences which separate building compounds from the pavement and street outside...

 were for the first time into the classification of households that are entitled to land for relocation. Following the enactment of this legislation, the government of Maharashtra and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

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 set out a special policy for planning the relocation of the 20,000 households, using the information from a census Mahila Milan

Mahila Milan

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 and NSDF

National Slum Dwellers Federation

The National Slum Dwellers Federation in India was established by Jockin Arputham when he fought on behalf of a community of 70,000 to appeal a 1976 eviction order....

completed in 1995.