Slum Redevelopment – Rehabilitating Low-Income Families into Quality Housing

Limited concrete progress at the central policy level on new slum-specific redevelopment policies post-election. The primary vehicle remains the In-Situ Slum Redevelopment (ISSR) vertical under PMAY-U, which has historically seen very low uptake — of 4.3 lakh houses proposed under ISSR nationally, only ~2.96 lakh were sanctioned since 2015 and completions remain low. PMAY-U 2.0 (launched Sep 2024) continues ISSR but no major new "construct on slum land" policy has been announced at the central level. The most visible action is the Dharavi Redevelopment Project in Mumbai — a ₹20,000+ crore PPP with Adani Group that began Phase 1 construction on 6.5 acres of railway land in 2025, targeting ~1 million residents. However, this is a Maharashtra state initiative, not a new central policy. PM Modi inaugurated the Kalkaji Extension slum rehab project in Delhi (Nov 2022) and DDA's Jailorwala Bagh project nears completion, but Delhi slum redevelopment overall remains very slow — 675 listed slum clusters, only 2-3 projects completed in two decades. No new comprehensive central legislation or nationwide slum-on-slum-land policy has been introduced. Marked pending: the manifesto promised scaling up with "new policies" but no such central framework has materialized yet.