Bombay colony - 2

Chetasi Kothiwala - 12
What is slum?

overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.

Types
1. Notified slums
2. Non-notified slums

Notified slum dwellers can usually afford to invest in education and

skill training, while residents in non-notified slums are mostly
unconnected to basic services and formal livelihood opportunities
 • Poverty

What causes slum? • Absence of proper housing facilities

• Migration

• Rapid raise of urban population

• Carless and neglect of house owner

• High rental rate in the city

• Lack of cheap transport system

• Unplanned growth of cities

• The attraction of the city

• Negligence of govt and municipality

Location:
Near Rudarpura

Origin and lifespan

40 years

Bombay colony 2
Bombay colony 1
Bombay colony-2 was having
population of 1450 in 250
households as per the SMC
survey of 2005. The slum is on
municipal land. The population
increased and reached around
3000+ in 450 households in
2018.

Kachha house in Bombay colony 2 Dump yard

 How rental system works:

Rental
During the tenure of the Illegally occupied
Bharwad arrangement
Municipal Pavement
celebrated Municipal
Land community PAYS RENT dwellers
Commissioner of Surat, Mr.
S.R.Rao Varachha road was
widened and all the pavement
dwellers shifted to different
This arrangement continues even today.
municipal lands. Bombay
Colony - 2 expanded in this
period as a result.
 For earning their livelihood the men work either as vendors, labour, factory worker
Occupation or start a small shop and women work as domestic help in bungalows, handle small
shops outside their homes or work as vegetable vendors.

LOCAL SHOPS
There is a big problem of
gambling and consumption of
alcohol in the area. This has
resulted in an additional burden
on the women as men do not
contribute their income to the
family,
Education
Children go to nearby public
school and study up to 10th
standard.
Basic services
Basic services i.e. sanitation,
roads and electricity were
provided by the SMC. Shared
toilets have been provided in
individual line of housing.
Waste from the households is
collected by a pickup truck.
Street cleaning is done by the
locals themselves.

Electricity provided by government

Toilets and water supply

No services had been provided by

the SMC earlier
Most of the housing in Bombay
Colony-2 is semi- pucca and
those who could afford have
extended one floor but such
cases are very few since vertical
growth is restricted in the area
due to high tension electricity
line passing through the slum.

Illegal vertical growth Semi pucca houses

Timeline

Year 2000 Year 2005 Year 2010

2020