To empower the urban poor, the United Progressive Alliance government is initiating steps to give them property entitlements.
We will develop a model legal framework for consideration by the states and Union territories for according property rights to slum dwellers, Union housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Selja said here today.
Selja was announcing a 100-day plan of action for her ministry. There are about 81 million urban poor, or slum dwellers, in the country as per an estimate made in 2004-05.
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