The project aims at preparing Slum Atlas 2.0 that would provide an opportunity to many, to make a difference in the lives of slum dwellers through the provision of maps and relevant information on slums of Pune. Nonetheless an important document and one of its kind, it has achieved the purposes intended but due to changing times the information now becomes old and calls for an urgent need for upgradation. The Slum Atlas is a reliable reference document for professionals, academic institutions, social marketers, the Government, bilateral funding organizations, micro-finance institutions, real estate companies, political representatives, ULB, NGOs, and Slum Dwellers and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) departments of various corporations.

MASHAL has compiled a Slum Atlas for Pune, India. Compiled over a two-year period, the Slum Atlas is a docket of 15 booklets that provides analytical information of the demographic, Socio-Economic profile, Housing infrastructure provision and rehabilitation status of slum pockets in Pune. One booklet covers Pune City and rest 14 booklets detail Pune’s 14 administrative wards. The detailed Demographic information included in the Atlas make it a reliable reference document for professionals, academic institutes, social marketers, bilateral funding organizations, micro-finance institutes, real estate companies, political representatives and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) departments of various corporations. The vast potential of Slum Atlas has already been witnessed by the Urban Community Development (UCD) department of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the identification of target groups for welfare programs. It was released at the hands of Shri. Prithwiraj Chavan, the then Honourable Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

MASHAL has completed the above survey/mapping for all 72 slum pockets in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation and is currently involved in a similar project with Pune Municipal Corporation and Nasik Municipal Corporation.

MASHAL participated in preparing a City Development Plan for Pune and PCMC for getting JN-NURM funds. MASHAL prepared detailed slum mapping for Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Nasik, which has become the basis for preparing a detailed project report to get JN-NURM funds for slum housing development. Mashal also prepared three preliminary DPRs for RAY PMC.

Mumbai is the financial capital of India with a population of approximately 15 million. Over 60% of its citizens stay in over 2000 slum pockets across the city. Dharavi is one of the biggest pockets in the in this metropolis where nearly 60,000 slum families/establishments occupy 239 hectors of land in a compact settlement pattern. Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) appointed MASHAL to undertake GIS based Bio-Metric & Socio-Economic Baseline Survey (BSES) of all slum dwellers/establishment owners of Dharavi and for nearly all slum pockets on the Railway land between Western and Harbour Railway lines. DRP/SRA has advertised for the work and MASHAL responded to the tender based on its experience of similar work in Pune, Nashik and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations. The assignment was awarded on the competitive basis.

Dharavi is divided into five Planning Sectors for implementation of DRP. MASHAL carried out above survey for each of the above sectors independently. It used satellite image, survey maps of City Survey Department, information from SRA, RGNP, MCGM, SLR etc. to complete cadastral survey of 57,000 slum structures on total 239 hectors of land in Dharavi.

Rajiv Awaas Yojana (RAY) announced by the Honorable President of India on 4 th , June, 2009 for the slum dwellers and the urban poor envisages a “Slum-free India” through encouraging States/Union Territories to tackle the problem of slums in a definite manner. The scheme is expected to cover about 250 cities, mostly with a population of more than one lakh across the country by the end of 12 th , Plan (2017). The scheme will progress at the pace set by the States.

The main focus of RAY is an integrated approach aimed at bringing within the formal system those who are forced to live in extra-formal spaces and in denial of right to services and amenities available to those with legal title to city spaces, and at correcting the deficiencies of the formal system of urban development and town planning that have failed to create conditions of inclusiveness and equity so that, henceforth new urban families whether by way of migration or natural growth of population have recourse to housing with municipal services, and are not forced to create encroachments and slums and live extralegal lives in conditions of deprivation of rights and amenities.

MASHAL’s target for this project was to work in all slums of Pune. Socio economic information collected 60,078 HH (213 slum pockets) No. of slums mapped slum pockets 457 out of 477