A Committee appointed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation to look into various aspects of slum statistics and guide conduct of slum census 2011 submitted its report on August 30, 2011. The committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. Pranob Sen, Principal Adviser, Planning Commission (former Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation) was given the task of studying the slum definition and to estimate the urban slum population for the whole country on the basis of available data. Major features of the Report submitted by the committee are as follows:
Estimates
The Committee has estimated Slum Population in the country in 2001 at 75.26 million and the projected slum
population in the country for the year 2011 at 93.06 million.
The slum population constituted 26.31 % of the urban population of the country in 2001.
For the slum Census 2011, the Committee has recommended counting of slum population even in cities having less than 20000 as population.
Definition of slums
The Committee has suggested a different definition for slum than the current definition adopted by the Census of India and the States. The Committee recommends a normative definition based on appropriate indicators/checklists for the purpose of identification of slum areas and enumeration of population of area.
It recommends contiguous area with 20-25 households having slum like characteristics as a slum area. The following characteristics have been identified as slum characteristics:
i) Predominant roof material: any material other than concrete (RBC/ RCC)
ii) Availability of drinking water source: not within premises of the census house
iii) Availability of latrine: not within premises of the census house
iv) Drainage facility: no drainage or open drainage
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