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Write a note on Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) and Integrated Housing and Slum Development (IHSD) programs provided for the urban poor.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Both were sub-missions of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission launched in December 2005 — India's first attempt to treat the slum as a claim on the city rather than an encroachment upon it. The second is formally the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP), "IHSD" being a common shortening.

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