Bhubaneswar, Jan 5: Odisha has won the UN HABITAT’s World Habitat’s bronze award , a 5T initiative of the state.
Jaga Mission- the largest land titling and slum upgrading scheme in the world has won the Bronze award for the second time, Earlier it won the award in 2019.
The awards which are organised by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat are the world’s leading housing awards which recognise and highlight innovative housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.
Odisha government has set itself the target of becoming the first slum-free state in India and is leading the Jaga Mission programme to upgrade all 2919 slums of the state.
The project has taken a holistic approach to address poverty, focusing on three issues.
Granting land rights to residents to mitigate the threat of forced evictions and enable access to public houses subsidies, infrastructure upgrades to improve living conditions and livelihood opportunities, and community mobilisation to empower marginalised groups to construct, manage and maintain upgraded facilities.
So far 707 slums have been upgraded across 30 cities of which eight. Have been declared slum-free.
Since the last five years of the initiative, 1,75,000 families from the slums have been granted land tenure and security.
Under the Jaga mission 100 per cent households in 2724 slums have been provided with pipe water connections, 707 slums have been transformed into liveable habitats, and 100 per cent households in 666 slums have individual toilets.
