To help slum dwellers have their own home, Punjab Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan on Saturday approved granting proprietary rights to 1996 slum households in six districts under the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s flagship slum development programme- ‘Basera’.
The approval was given at the third meeting of the steering committee under the Basera scheme, chaired by the Chief Secretary, here. With this, Punjab has become the first state in the country to launch a scheme for granting proprietary rights to the slum dwellers occupying state government’s land in the slums of urban areas.
The 1996 households, who have been given the proprietary rights, were located at 24 slum sites in Patiala, Ludhiana, Mansa, Ferozepur, Barnala and Kapurthala districts.