REDEVELOPMENT OF A SQUATTER SETTLEMENT -CASE STUDY : ANNA NAGAR, DELHI

Abstract

Squatting can be defined as the unauthorized illegal and forcible occupation of public or 'private land for shelter. This part of man's struggle for shelter, SQUATTING has become a common phenomenon in all developing and under developed countries. The large cities have attracted the largest number of migrants from rural areas because unlike the small towns, they offer a wide range of employment opportunities which require various degrees of skills and, what is more important, the big cities can provide employment to rural migrants who are largely unskilled and illiterate. The need of shelter for himself and for his family members is most dominant desire of a man after the need for food and clothing. Some of the migrants satisfy this by purchase of property, rent one if they can, those who can not purchase a property or pay rent, occupy vacant land and just squat on the property.. This process continues and others in the same category occupy the adjacent property and soon there is an emergence of squatter settlement without adequate services and facilities....