Chetan Vaidya is the Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) based in New Delhi. I have worked with Chetan on two previous books on Indian urbanism and attended a number of conferences with him. He has an important role in overviewing urban planning across India. We discussed the governments programs that relate to slum renewal. These include the Jawal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and specific program on slum rennewal called Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY). Chetan outlined a project that NIUA was undertaking to compare a slum renewal project in Bhopal with one that had no renewal and to measure issues like health, income, jobs etc. We discussed this with the project officer involved.
Chetan also outlined the role of the
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) and its programs. Much
of the detailed work on actual projects is delegated to Urban Local Bodies
(ULB). Chetan believed that the role of women in slum renewal was improving and
that NIUA worked with many women from NGO's and architects and planners. On previous
trips to India Chetan had put me in touch with Renu Koshla and Manvita Baradi
who I had met previously and would be again as part of my current research.
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