India, May 6 -- The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) is working on rehabilitation plan to prioritise the relocation of 11 slum clusters, comprising of 2,236 households, on land required for key infrastructure projects, senior government officials said. However, activists said, the plan to provide these residents alternative housing in Sawda Ghevra under a rehabilitation scheme is a violation of guidelines.

A senior government official said that recently the committee, headed by secretary of urban development department, directed that these 11 slum clusters be taken up on priority because of their location. "The slum dwellers found eligible as per the slum rehabilitation policy will all be accommodated in EWS flats in northwe...