Watch Video: What’s making newsThe Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) and the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) have constructed these houses under the JNNURM. The ‘Delhi Slum and JJ Rehabilitation and Relocation Policy, 2015’ was approved in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Kejriwal. After the AAP came to power in February 2015, the slum rehabilitation policy was revisited. This time, officials said, of the total slum-dwellers in Delhi, about 35 to 38 per cent were found eligible for rehabilitation. At a time that Delhi was preparing for elections, no government wanted to announce a policy that denied 53 per cent of slum-dwellers rehabilitation.

Source: Indian Express June 19, 2016 21:18 UTC