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Revision as of 15:47, 11 August 2023
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 27 May 2004 |
Dissolved | 6 July 2017 |
Jurisdiction | Government of India |
Headquarters | New Delhi |
Website | mhupa |
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation was a ministry of the Government of India responsible for urban poverty, housing, and employment programs. It involved in national policy decisions and coordinates with Indian central ministries, state governments, and central sponsor programs. The ministry was created in 2004 after bifurcating it from the Ministry of Urban Development.
On 6 July 2017, the ministry was re-united with the Ministry of Urban Development to form the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.[1]
Overview
The Indian Constitution has allocated responsibility for housing and urban development to the state; and the 74th amendment to the Constitution delegates some responsibility to the local governments. The ministry was responsible for the national capital territory of Delhi and union territories. It also provided finances through federal institutions and allocates resources to the state governments. The ministry supported the country's external housing and urban development assistance programs.[2]
Divisions
The ministry had administrative control over the National Buildings Organisation (NBO) attached office and the Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL) and Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) public sector undertakings. It was also responsible for the following statutory and autonomous bodies:
- Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC)
- Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation (CGEWHO)
- National Cooperative Housing Federation of India (NCHFI)
- Principal Account Office (PAO)
Sectors for improvement
For poverty alleviation programs to be successful, the following sectors should realise improvements: Income generation, health, shelter, education, environment and infrastructure. Environmental Improvement for Urban Slum, Urban Basic Service programs, Nehru Rozgar Yojana, Shelter and Infrastructural facilities, and Low Cost Sanitation Night Shelter are examples of schemes to meet these objectives.[3]
The Ministry had constituted a Committee on Streamlining Approval Procedures for Real Estate Projects (SAPREP)[4] under the Chairmanship of Dhanendra Kumar, former Chairman of Competition Commission of India. Amongst other things, the concept of single window clearance as advocated by this committee report draw parallels with government's effort towards improving ease of doing business in the country.[5]
National programs and legislation
The Government of India has launched various programs since its independence, such as some of the five-year plans, to alleviate poverty and address the widening income gap, both, amongst the upper and lower classes of society, and amongst the rural and urban parts of the country.[6] For instance, the "Eighth Plan policy guidelines envisages integrated approach to alleviation of urban poverty and servicing the urban poor with basic facilities so that their quality of life improves."[7]
As trends in the Gini coefficient reflect,[6] the income gaps were not as pronounced until the early 1980s, but the situation has been continually getting worse since. Misplaced priorities of the Indian Government and bad planning of subsidy programs is largely responsible for this.[citation needed] Hosting the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010 that cost the exchequer an approximate ₹110 billion (US$1.3 billion), excluding the price of non-sports related infrastructure, is a case in point.[8]
While newly launched programs like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Food Security Act, Mid-day Meals and Bharat Nirman Yojana have demonstrated success in the initial stages, their performance over the long-run still remains to be seen. The shortsightedness of the Indian government often leads it to launch populist programs that may not necessarily work well. Low-hanging fruit like increasing worker's minimum wage can go a long way in achieving the goal of poverty alleviation, but are yet to be taken up in spite of reminders from leading economists.[9]
On 6 September 2012 by the Union Minister, Kumari Selja, introduced to the Street Vendors Act, 2014 in the Lok Sabha.[10][11]
Ministers
Cabinet Ministers
- Note: MoS, I/C – Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
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From | To | Period | ||||||
Ministers of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation (22 May 2004 – 1 June 2006) | ||||||||
Selja Kumari (born 1962) MP for Ambala (MoS, I/C) |
23 May 2004 |
1 June 2006 |
2 years, 9 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | ||
Ministers of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (1 June 2006 – 6 July 2017) | ||||||||
Selja Kumari (born 1962) MP for Ambala (MoS, I/C until 22 May 2009) |
1 June 2006 |
22 May 2009 |
2 years, 355 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | ||
28 May 2009 |
28 October 2012 |
3 years, 214 days | Manmohan II | |||||
Ajay Maken (born 1964) MP for New Delhi |
28 October 2012 |
16 June 2013 |
231 days | |||||
Girija Vyas (born 1946) MP for Chittorgarh |
17 June 2013 |
26 May 2014 |
343 days | |||||
M. Venkaiah Naidu (born 1949) MP for Karnataka (Rajya Sabha), till 2016 MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha), from 2016 |
26 May 2014 |
6 July 2017 |
3 years, 41 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | ||
Merged with Ministry of Urban Development to form the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs |
Ministers of State
Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | Cabinet Minister | ||||
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From | To | Period | ||||||||
Babul Supriyo (born 1970) MP for Asansol |
9 November 2014 |
12 July 2016 |
1 year, 246 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | M. Venkaiah Naidu | |||
Rao Inderjit Singh (born 1951) MP for Gurgaon |
5 July 2016 |
6 July 2017 |
1 year, 1 day | |||||||
Merged with Ministry of Urban Development to form the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs |
See also
- Housing in India
- Illegal housing in India
- Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
- Poverty in India
- Slums in India
References
- ^ "MoHUA is the new name for urban development & housing ministry". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ The Ministry. Archived 14 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Ministry of Housing And Urban Poverty Alleviation. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ L. N. P. Mohanty, Swati Mohanty (2005). Slum in India: A Case Study of Bhubaneswar City. APH Publishing. pp. 76–77. ISBN 8176488925.
- ^ "Single Window System for Clearance for Real Estate Projects Soon: Ajay Maken".
- ^ "Giving Housing Sector a Boost". Archived from the original on 15 December 2021.
- ^ a b Kanbur, Ravi; Gajwani, Kiran; Zhang, Xiaobo (2007), "Patterns of spatial convergence and divergence in India and China", in Bourguignon, François; Pleskovic, Boris (eds.), Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics Regional 2007 beyond transition, Washington, D.C: World Bank, pp. 3–4 and 9–10, ISBN 9780821368435. Pdf version.
- ^ L. N. P. Mohanty, Swati Mohanty (2005). Slum in India: A Case Study of Bhubaneswar City. APH Publishing. p. 75. ISBN 8176488925.
- ^ Sengupta, Mitu. Corruption, Poverty and India's Commonwealth Games. Green Left Weekly. 7 August 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ Ashenfelter, Orley, and Stěpán Jurajda. Cross-country Comparisons of Wage Rates: The Big Mac Index. Archived 21 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine Diss. Princeton University and Charles University, 2001. Center De Recerca En Economia Internacional. October 2001. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ "Bill in Lok Sabha to protect rights of street vendors". The Economic Times. 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Govt introduces street vending bill in Lok Sabha". The Times of India. 7 September 2012. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013.
Further reading
- India. Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation. Annual Report. Government of India, Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.