14 Acts & Rules · 14.3 Municipal and urban development Acts of Maharashtra

14.3.6 Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act 1971 and slum rehabilitation

The Slum Act, 1971 lets a Competent Authority declare an area a slum (s.4) and improve, clear or redevelop it; an amendment in the mid-1990s, following the 1995 Afzalpurkar Committee report, added Chapter I-A, creating Slum Rehabilitation Authorities and the developer-led scheme in which eligible hutment dwellers get a free 27.88 sq m (300 sq ft) tenement paid for by a free-sale component.

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Key terms

  • Slum Act 1971
  • Competent Authority
  • section 4 declaration of slum area
  • Chapter I-A
  • Slum Rehabilitation Authority section 3A
  • Slum Rehabilitation Scheme section 3B
  • slum rehabilitation area section 3C
  • Chapter I-B protected occupier
  • 1 January 2000
  • 1 January 2011
  • non-protected occupier
  • 27.88 sq m
  • 300 sq ft
  • 25 sq m
  • 51 percent consent
  • incentive FSI
  • free sale component
  • slum TDR
  • Afzalpurkar Committee
  • UDCPR 14.6
  • UDCPR 14.7

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