New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has begun the process of hiring an agency to conduct household surveys across the slums and JJ clusters of Delhi for their in situ rehabilitation under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY). There are at least 90,000 households for which detailed surveys will be done over the next three months, officials said.
There are three such existing projects, one of which in Kathputli Colony has still not been developed, nine years after it took off.
"DDA intends to create a comprehensive database of JJ dwellers and JJ clusters for rehabilitation. The survey will assess number of people and households in approximately 173 JJ clusters with documents on their status and eligibility for reset...