Life 4 - Slum Futures
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Bombay -- now known as Mumbai -- is the home of Bollywood movies and India's city of gold, its financial capital. But behind the glitz and glamor lurks a different reality -- a city landscape dominated by massive, sprawling slums, which rank among the biggest in the world. According to Mumbai's city housing authority, eight out of the twelve million people in Mumbai live in the slums. Mumbai's slum dwellers are, however, a vibrant and proud community, and the city is also an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world. Globally one in six people live in slums. At the current rate of growth, UN-Habitat predicts that by 2030, one in every three people in the world could be living in a slum.
'Convey[s] not only many startling images of the urban slum but make[s] intelligent and surprising comments about slum society and the wider society of which it is -- not an aberrant but a crucial, dare we say 'functional' -- part. Students and the general public need to realize that, while slums are a 'problem,' and far from an ideal living condition, they are not mere urban anomie. Anthropologists know this and have made significant contributions to documenting urban slum life (not only in the non-Western world but also in the West and even in the U.S.) and its relation to development, labor migration, and urbanization. Slum Futures offers a valuable opportunity for anthropologists to present and discuss the construction of slum social order as a response to crucial and globally-linked changes in the economies and lives of real people. Level/Use: Suitable for high school and college courses in cultural anthropology, anthropology of India, development anthropology, and urban anthropology, as well as for public audiences.' David Eller, Metropolitan State College, Anthropology Review Database
'The importance of these films is that they are intended to raise awareness about global issues in young people, and can be used by anyone for this purpose. The quality of the films is excellent. They are documentaries about the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and include brief interviews with people who are actually involved in MDG programs, from various institutions and from the grassroots to executive level...The objective evidence about the current global crisis of insecurity, poverty, gender inequalities, environmental degradation, and lack of international cooperation is presented in a way that is both realistic and non-inflammatory.
Children are the future. Educational materials such as the Bullfrog Films are very important for the future of both humanity and the human habitat...The Bullfrog Films certainly can and should be shown to children, especially to high school students. But these films are most appropriate for those who prepare the children for responsible citizenship, including global citizenship. They are certainly appropriate for parents who want their children to know about the need for human solidarity and environmental sustainability. And, they are most appropriate for training teachers to plant the seed of global concerns in their students' minds and hearts.' Luis Gutierrez, Editor, Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence Research Newsletter
Citation
Main credits
Mackenzie, Alastair (narrator)
Gabbay, Alex (film director)
Gabbay, Alex (screenwriter)
Shrestha, Subina (film director)
Shrestha, Subina (screenwriter)
Kelly, Brenda (film producer)
Bower, Dick (film producer)
Richards, Jenny (consultant)
Kyriacou, Sotira (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Executive producer, Brenda Kelly; series producer, Dick Bower; series consultant, Jenny Richards; editor, Sotira Kyriacou.
Distributor subjects
Anthropology; Asian Studies; Community; Developing World; Environment; Geography; Global Issues; Human Rights; Humanities; India; Millennium Development Goals; Population; Poverty; Social Justice; Sociology; Sustainability; United Nations; Urban Studies; Urban and Regional PlanningKeywords
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[music]
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Previously on life.
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One of the things we hope to do is to change the lives of the
slum dwellers and I think this is the beginning of a change.
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It is a positive thing. We have
what we call slums of hope
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because slum residence improve
the (inaudible) accommodation.
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The beauty of women and girls actually
is that we agreed to uh… do our bit.
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[music]
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[non-English narration]
(inaudible) Bombay meri jaan.
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S is Bombay my friend, the city
of dreams and silver screens.
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Bombay, now known as Mumbai
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is also India\'s city of gold, its financial capital. Like
a magnet it draws in people from all over the country.
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But behind the glitz, glamour and the hype lies
a different reality. A city landscape dominated
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by massive sprawling slums some
of the biggest in the world.
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According to the city housing authority eight
million out of the twelve million people in Mumbai
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live in the slums. And Mumbai is not alone.
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Slums are a global problem they
are home to one billion people.
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[music]
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UN Habitat predicts that by 2030
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one in every three people in the
world to be living in a slum.
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The impact of slums in the future
is going to be hard to ignore.
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[sil.]
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Earlier morning in south Mumbai
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and Segera who came to the city 32 years
ago is already at work making quilts.
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Her sons wash carpets, her nephew
works in a clothing factory,
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her niece is a domestic servant.
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This hut on the pavement is her
home it\'s less than 50 square feet.
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16 members of her family
live in this space.
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People come to Bombay only when there
have problems in their village.
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When I came here there were
no huts on the pavement.
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Everyone had their bedding spread around and
they live on the street, that\'s what I did too.
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Migration and slums are not new to Mumbai.
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When India gained independence in 1947
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only 5% of Mumbai\'s population lived
in the slums, today it\'s 60%.
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They settled where they could on land owned
by the government, Mumbai municipality,
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the railways and on private land. The
Authority responsible for Mumbai slums
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is a Maharashtra state housing authority. Their
attempts to get rid of the slums have failed
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and the infrastructure is
almost at breaking point.
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But one of Bollywood\'s biggest stars who\'s been
involved with the slums for years says the city simply
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would not function without
the slum dwellers.
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Are we talking uh… about
60% of the population
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that provide all the services in the city.
From the boy who brings in your milkman,
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to your newspaper vendor, to the maid who works in
your house, to the driver who takes you to work,
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to the people who work in your factories, to the
(inaudible) in the bank, to the municipal corporation,
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schools, colleges these people who live
in the slums, they are the working
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uh… people of Bombay. If they uh… said \"halt\",
Bombay would come to a grinding halt.
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Segera\'s stretch of pavement
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has almost no amenities. Her water
comes from an illegal connection,
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she has no electricity and it costs her
two cents to use the municipal toilets.
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Mumbai (inaudible) to provide
more than a million homes
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has made the city an important experiment
in slum rehabilitation and upgrading
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but it could take years to solve. In the meantime
the key issue is still to establish basic rights.
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The issue of land tenure is very important
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because it represents the
security of having an address
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unless there is some
understanding of secure tenure,
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municipalities don\'t make any investment in terms
of providing water, sanitation, drainage, sewage.
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[non-English narration]
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The security of tenure is so central because you
see security is a business for everything else.
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When people feeling secure definitely it becomes
very difficult to have a productive or…
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or a peaceful person who…
who does not know how…
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what tomorrow will bring. It
brings uncertainty, irritation
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and as I said therefore social, sometimes
social tensions in conference (ph).
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Just half an hour\'s train ride
from Segera\'s home is (inaudible).
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The residents here have water and
electricity but share communal toilets.
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This is where Maha Dev,
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a newly qualified lawyer
lives with his family.
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[non-English narration]
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When I moved into this hut, it
was a single room made of wood.
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It was not exactly livable but I slowly
worked on it and made it to what it is today.
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When I started living here I decided
to develop my career further.
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I thought if people from states like UP,
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who are uneducated end up studying
and become lawyers, why not me?
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So I decided to study further.
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[non-English narration]
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Slum is not some object,
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slum is a make up of people.
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And it, Bombay slums has people of a whole
variety. I know of examples of professionals
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including architects who live in slums.
Their engineers will live in slums.
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There are police who live in slums, there
are municipal officials who live in slums
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so it\'s not a single uh… sort
of anonymous hole you know.
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And that must be clarified.
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Mumbai is one of the 20 most expensive
cities in the world for property.
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Only a handful can afford the prices, the poor
and even the middle classes have no choice
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but to move to the slums.
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Even though most slums are illegal, the slum dwellers buy,
sell and rent their homes just like on the open market.
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16 years ago Maha Dev bought his slum
home for around four thousand dollars,
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today it would cost six times as much.
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[music]
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Dharavi, one of Asia\'s largest slums
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covers less than two square kilometers, now
its home to more than half a million people.
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It\'s a slum built on sweat and
struggle against a lawless background.
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[music]
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Corruption (inaudible) very central to
the whole issue of the growth of slums
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in different ways. Uh… Slums come
up on a vacant piece of land
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not sort of spontaneously but because
some enterprising individual,
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a dada uh… manages to actually seize a
piece of that vacant land, mark out plots
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and then more or less sell them to the slum dweller
in the sense that he extracts money from poor people
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so that they can uh… park themselves on this vacant
piece of land and they have to continue to pay
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this uh… their protector uh… so
that they will not be evicted.
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And to ensure that they are not evicted, this dada
in turn has to pay either the local cooperator
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or the ward officer or somebody higher up.
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The authority in charge of
rehabilitating Mumbai slums admits
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that in the past the city\'s housing policy has
failed to provide for those most in need.
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The income levels being what they
are, the city has failed to provide
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adequate and affordable
housing for these people.
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And slums have emerged as
an innovative solution.
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People have themselves constructed their house
because affordable housing was not available.
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While the city has been beckoning people, it requires
these people. The city has been paying them the wages
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from which he has to make his ends meet.
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The State Government also
accepts that over the years
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promises to rehabilitate the
city slums have not been kept.
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But I think at that time when the promise was made uh… if you
remember the property markets were… were extremely buoyant (ph)
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in sense that the property
prices were extremely high.
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So umm… the developers felt that
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uh… that… that they wouldn\'t be able to not only meet the cost
but they would also be able raise sufficient money to… to
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uh… to develop the all these areas. There after there\'s
been a slump in the uh… in the property markets.
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So therefore it\'s not as lucrative as it
was at the time when promise was made.
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Business Man VJ didn\'t
wait to be re housed.
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Two years ago he moved out of the slum.
His is a rags to riches story.
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[sil.]
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30 years ago his family
arrived with almost nothing,
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now they run two shops, a telephone booth and
also supply his old slum with cable T.V.
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[non-English narration]
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Since I had spent my entire childhood in
the slum I knew about everyone struggle.
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So I wanted to ensure that nobody\'s
home get snatched away from them.
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So it is because of this
that I got involved.
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Along with Maha Dev, VJ
is now on a committee
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to get his old slum redeveloped.
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One champion of slum
dwellers is Jockin Arpitham.
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Back in the 1960\'s he was one of the
first to get slum dwellers organized.
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Who built the city? Is
anyone middle class can come
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and stand and say \"I\'ve build a building\". Any middle
class come and say \"I\'ve build the sewer of the system
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of the Bombay\"? No, complete
sewer system, road,
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buildings, your apartment, where
you live, this all built by whom?
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But the slum dwellers do have
some power, they\'re the largest
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block of votes in Mumbai and their
biggest success came four years ago.
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In 2001 the state government passed a law
saying slum dwellers who registered before 1995
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would not be evicted and would have free housing. The
scheme is financed through deals with the builders.
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The slum dwellers are given
free houses in the same area
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and in order to finance that,
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there is a certain element of free sale component.
That means you can sell part of tenements
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that you construct over there to anybody at the
market price. And there by cross subsidize
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the cost of construction
for the slum dwellers.
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[non-English narration]
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For Saphia being moved to free housing was a mixed
blessing. She moved from the railway tracks to a new block
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but she didn\'t know that she would
be living on the seventh floor.
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The residents can\'t afford to keep the lift going
and at the moment they have no water supply.
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Saphia has to carry water up seven flights and to make
matters worse she has just had a stomach operation.
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I have only one thing
to tell the government
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either start the lift or at least
solve our water problem. I\'m helpless
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I cannot bring water or else
at least start the lift.
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I will be able to use the lift to bring water. The
government should do at least one of the two jobs.
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These flats might be free but
maintaining them is costly.
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Many residents simply can\'t afford it.
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If you just look at the labor markets, they
are the informal markets. Where are the wages
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that… that uh… most of the
people earn are… are so low.
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But even if they move in to formal
settlements, the… the wages are not sufficient
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for them to maintain their formal settlements. So
uh… so there is a bit of a mismatch over there.
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In order to transform the city their incomes of individuals and
poverty will have to be, these issues will have to be tackled.
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[sil.]
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With more than eight hundred thousand
people waiting for free housing
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there\'s an urgent need to find new ways
of paying for it. One expert says working
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with the private sector is not always the ideal
solution. The government has not been successful
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in administering, in implementing schemes
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that are of social interest. It has failed because
of its own reasons of bureaucratic failures,
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of corruption, of various other issues,
of lack of will to actually provide
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and promote schemes of social interest.
Uh… But that\'s… that\'s on one side.
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But on the other side there is this
continuous pressure of the market
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of this policy of privatization.
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Under the guides of privatization, the
government is shirking its own responsibility.
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Okay, it\'s not that it doesn\'t have the will.
The government\'s will is misplaced will,
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its will is to promote the market.
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Its will is to push the privatization
policy at the cost of social development.
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But the state housing authority claim they do
have the political will to find solutions,
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what they lack is the finance. You
see before the authority started
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the projections where you know, they
were political. They were promises.
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Uh… While working you realize
that the greatest hurdle you have
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is the availability of finance. You will
have projects coming up only in the place
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where an investor wants, he knows that he is either going to double
or at least make one and a half times the money he is putting in
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because it\'s… its a private
sector you know driven scheme.
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What now with the availability of finance
coming up through the national housing bank
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I\'m trying to make it away from the developer
towards the slum dweller and towards the NGO.
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Where instead of you know the focus on the most
profitable area, the focus shifts you know dramatically
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all over the city. So wherever you are
slum is, you can build up your house.
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That is the kind of concept
I\'m now trying to put in.
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But the slum rehabilitation authority faces
problems. They have to deal with cases like Chitra,
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who is not sure if she has the paperwork
to prove she is eligible for free housing.
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Chitra is stranded in a redevelopment
where the builder failed
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to finish the job.
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All the slum housings around
her have been demolished.
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She and 30 other families are trying to
find out what\'s going to happen to them.
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I went to get the list of people
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who are going to get flats in the building. If we get the list
at least we will know that we are going to get re housed.
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If we are eligible, they should
tell us or at least our lawyer.
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The collector tells us to move.
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The developer already has agreement
from seventy percent of the residents.
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This is the transit camp where
slum dwellers are moved
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before they get better homes.
They\'ve been here for over a year
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and there\'s still no sign of
their homes being constructed.
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Chitra and her neighbors could go to the
camp but they\'re even worse than the slums.
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The entire camp now has only one
electric meter and the bill
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is now eleven thousand dollars, the bill has
not been paid and now the power will be cut.
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The authorities accept
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it\'s not a waste straightforward when private
companies are allowed to develop the slums.
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In one sense there is a little bit
of risk uh… involved where you have
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uh… you give to the private sector
a free hand uh… in doing that.
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There could be certain umm… some uh… uh…
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that\'s a mismanagement of this program or some people could
probably try to engineer it to their… to their own benefits.
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So to that extent this slumber rehabilitation
authority has to play much more active role
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in being vigilant, see that nobody takes
advantage of this. Fortunately we also have
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the media, which is extremely vigilant.
We have the NGO\'s in Mumbai
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are… are extremely dominant in their presence. So it\'s not very
easy for anyone to just get away by manipulating the system.
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Though of course I won\'t totally rule out
the possibility of such things happening.
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[sil.]
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The most successful rehabilitation schemes are those
where communities themselves have been involved
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in the design and building. Another important
initiative has been the saving schemes
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set up by women slum dwellers.
According to Jockin Arputham
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this is a first step to a better future.
The saving is very important
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this is because of the minute people know
they should take control of their own money
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then they will know how to take control of a
political decision, how to control on their social
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uh… decision making. So once people don\'t
know… know how to manage their money,
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they can manage everything.
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The State Government wants to put Mumbai on the international
stage and can even see a day when slums go completely.
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We… we looking at Mumbai
to be a world class city
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and world class city cannot really
have slums. If you… if you… if you uh…
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try and define it. Then uh… we\'re
looking at 13 years uh… so,
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I would say by uh… another 10 to 12 years
times is what uh… we should look at.
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The Mumbai experiment
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is being watched closely by other
international cities. Sikhuile Nkhoma
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from the slum communities of Malawi\'s capital
Lilongwe is in Mumbai along with (inaudible),
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a government official from South Africa.
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The major difference is that
yes but you are in India,
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in may be in Malawi but the… the
very basic issue is that you…
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you have the poor who have been…
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been denied their rights of basic services by
both governments where there in South Africa
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in Malawi and in India. So it\'s so similar.
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The scale is different in they\'re
talking of thousands in the Lilongwe,
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in millions in Mumbai.
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There is a long way to go before the one billion
who live in slums all get better housing.
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U.N. Habitat house however set
itself an international agenda.
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One of the millennium development goals
is to significantly improve the lives of
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one hundred million slum
dwellers by the year 2020.
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Actually the problem is not the money, the
problem is a political will to do something.
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The awareness because there is a lot of
money in the world which is sitting idle
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and as I have word to say we\'re not
basically talking of handouts or charity.
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It is a question of having changing
our mindset, believing that,
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believing in these people, seeing them differently and
knowing that if this question of slum dwellers has improved,
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we shall all be better off so even
self-interest if nothing else.
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After 32 years of living on the pavements
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Segera\'s Mumbai dream is
finally taking shape.
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Where do you want to sleep over here?
Up there your parents
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are going to sleep. Huh?
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This will be her new world.
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A water supply, a toilet and more space,
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this four storey building will
house her and all the people
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who lived on her stretch of pavement.
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For some the future is at last
a move away from the slums.
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