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Role of Community Participation in Achieving Equitable and Inclusive Development for Social Sustainability in India

Anubhav Shrivastava, K. K. Dhote

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Abstract Social sustainability through effective community participation can lead to equitable and inclusive Development in India. The Mid-Term Appraisal of 11th Five Year Plan of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India and the experience of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has demonstrated the need for adopting a process of change management that will ensure the sustainability of urban transformation. On the same lines, Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) laid emphasis on community participation in the process of preparing and implementing the State and City Slum Free Plans. It was wide propagated that the designing of slum redevelopment for the people should be done by the community involvement at every stage of Planning and implementation of the Programme, providing a much needed community ownership and sustainability. As Government of India’s Proggamme Housing for all popularly known as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) after Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) has already initiated (2015–2022), it becomes imperative to review the scope and extent of community participation in the light of the learning’s from similar past interventions for providing housing to urban slum-dwellers. The paper aims to discuss participation process and its various levels based on the various theoretical frameworks and add to the body of existing literature on community participation based micro-planning exercise for Slum Up-gradation/Redeployment in India. Keywords: community, equitable, inclusive, participation, slum

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