Slums are dangerous both for slum dwellers as well as the population of the city where slums are located. Cities are engines of growth and slum dwellers are integral and essential participants in its development. Hence, they need to be included in the mainstream of the society by increasing their productivity and decreasing the inequality in society. Therefore, the slums are part of urban life; hence urban local bodies should spare no efforts to eradicate it. A good environment is key to development. The present book is an outcome of a study, which was conducted by the authors. The study further has been converted into a book, wherein an attempt has been made on the issues of slum improvement. The research methodology is based on study of literature, personal visits to a large number of urban local bodies, personal discussions with various officers/functionaries research studies conducted by the authors and personal experience as citizens. The authors have also acted as trainers in many programmes of executive development of the officers of the local self-government. Such opportunities provided intimate relationships, which led to know the real issues faced by urban local bodies. The chapters are supplemented with charts, tables, graphs and case studies to make the reading interesting and comprehensible. A special feature of this book is that it deals with the slum improvement issues, while it engages itself in emerging areas like training, implementation of poverty alleviation programmes, urban slums, urban health, urban poverty and women’s empowerment, in the urban local bodies. The book provides concrete suggestions and do not merely describe the slums. It is hoped that this book would be useful to the scholars of urban local self-government and especially to those who are engaged in planning, policy-making and decision-making about slum improvement programmes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.S. Dhaliwal
Dr. S.S. Dhaliwal, Ph.D., is an alumnus of Punjab University. He is presently engaged in the implementation of the urban poverty alleviation schemes in the State of Punjab. He has the distinction of serving in different local bodies and has the first hand knowledge of the urban areas. These may be with regard to Reforms, or Slum Improvement, or Urban Infrastructure Development, or their working, etc. His vast experience in the urban management has enabled him to analyze the issues and problems of the urban local bodies. The present book is the result of the reflections and interest in urban affairs management. He has delivered lectures and has attended seminars in different institutions and universities on different subjects relating to urban management. He has also organized a large number of training programmes for municipal personnel. During his visits abroad, he has studied the local government system in order to suggest improvements in the affairs of our urban local bodies. IT is his endeavour to make the urban local bodies viable, efficient, democratic, transparent, and accountable and an institution of Good Governance.
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