Vellakovil City Development Plan - Municipal
Vellakovil City Development Plan - Municipal
Vellakovil City Development Plan - Municipal
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<strong>City</strong> <strong>Development</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> for Vellakoil <strong>Municipal</strong>ity SMEC India Pvt Ltd<br />
Final Report TNUDP III<br />
The chapters that follow propose projects needed to ensure efficient delivery of the services.<br />
3.7 STRATEGIES FOR POVERTY REDUCTION AND SLUM UPGRADATION<br />
Towards Building Successful Slum-Upgrading Strategies<br />
• Youth groups can be very effective.<br />
Youth SHGs can be encouraged and made active participants in developmental activities.<br />
Unlike Women SHGs, which are formed originally for social empowerment, Youth SHGs can<br />
aim at both economic empowerment and social empowerment as the primary focus. The<br />
focus can be on skill training for increasing their employability and promotion of economic<br />
activities.<br />
Group formation:<br />
The SHGs can be formed with unemployed youth in the age group of 18 to 35 years. Each<br />
group may comprise 10 to 20 members drawn from the below poverty line population.<br />
Youth SHGs can be beneficial in the following ways<br />
• To engage the communities in development activities through a dialogue with the active<br />
participation of the youth (men and women) with a sense of commitment and integrity<br />
• To equip the youth by building their skills, capacity and capability in managing<br />
development, so that, they can help build the capacity of the citizens to manage the affairs of<br />
the community on their own.<br />
• Infrastructure provision<br />
Infrastructure provision brings indirect social and economic development, particularly for<br />
women. Improved infrastructure reduces women’s work burden and gives them more time,<br />
increased space allows for more home-based economic activity, and lighting and better road<br />
coverage increase mobility and security at night. Infrastructure provision is perceived to have<br />
a significant impact on health, reducing incidence of illnesses which are related to an<br />
unhygienic living environment.<br />
• Community halls are valuable for project work as well as for private and public social<br />
activities, however, halls are prone to capture and maintenance can be a problem. They can<br />
also be used as location for health camps, balwadis (pre-schools), vocational training and<br />
neighborhood committee meetings. They can be used by the community for a variety of<br />
occasion such as religious ceremonies, marriages, political meetings etc. conflicts over use<br />
and maintenance are common, and control over the hall give some individuals power in the<br />
community.<br />
• Balwadis (pre-schools) and Schools<br />
Both these institutions benefit poor and working families, especially working mothers. If<br />
timings of balwadis are appropriate, then they have a positive effect on the lives of working<br />
women, freeing them of childcare and giving more time to women to do paid as well as nonpaid<br />
work.<br />
• Medical facilities<br />
Frequent illnesses and consequent break from work is a major factor that costs the time and<br />
money of the low income group. The availability and accessibility to medical facilities as<br />
necessary needs to be addressed as a priority issue.<br />
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