What is the news:

Punjab Govt has directed the Department of Local Government to expedite work on the ‘Basera’ project to achieve the target of giving proprietary rights to 10,000 slum households by September 2021.

About Basera Project:

It is slum development programme of Punjab aimed at helping slum dwellers realise their dream of owning a home. It was launched in January 2021 as a visionary step towards inclusive urban development and planning.

Till date, 186 Slums having 21431 slums households have been identified in 20 districts. Punjab is the first state in the country to launch such a scheme for conferring proprietary rights to every slum household occupying state government land in a slum in any urban area on the date of notification of ‘The Punjab Slum Dwellers (Proprietary Rights) Act, 2020’, i.e., 1st April 2020.

 A total of 1 lakh slum dwellers will benefit in the first phase of the scheme. Every slum household occupying land in a slum in any urban area on the date of notification of The Punjab Slum Dwellers (Proprietary Rights) Act, 2020, is eligible under the scheme. However, the beneficiaries will not be permitted to alienate the transferred land for 30 years.