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Explain the government initiatives for the redevelopment of slum areas in the mega cities of India.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Settlements

The Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1956 gave the state power to notify, improve or clear; the early bias was demolition with peripheral resettlement.

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  • Phase 1 — from clearance to environmental improvement
  • Phase 2 — funded upgrading and shelter
  • Phase 3 — mission mode and the slum-free city
  • Phase 4 — PMAY-Urban and the in-situ turn
  • The megacity instruments
  • Judgement — the doctrine changed, the instrument did not

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