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Industrial Boom Creates A Serious Housing Problem, Developed Slums With Numerous JhuggisBy yogisharma, Section Faridabad Real Estate Property
The industrial boom in the country has created a serious housing problem in almost all major cities. With the govermnment both at the centre and the state levels giving major thrust to this industrial revolution and the migration of rural population to bigger cities, housing problem is here to stay.
The industrialisation in Faridabad that has brought the city among the top industrial cities in the country has its negative aspect as well. With the rise in the number of industrial units, there developed slums with numerous jhuggis and shanty dwellings all over the city, which are causing various civic problems besides acting as an eyesore.  Mess in Faridabad
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In the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad areas, unofficial reports put the number of industrial units of all sizes to about 30,000. About 1,600 of them come under the purview of large-scale units. There has been a great influx of workers from various parts of the country to this city over the past five decades. At present, there are about five lakh workers employed in organised as well as unorganised sectors.
Initially, the workers pitched their tents wherever open space was available, which was aplenty till three decades back. Gradually, large swathes of slums sprung up in various parts of the city. The situation has now come to such a pass that many dub Faridabad as a city of slums. Right along the railway lines passing through the city and its surroundings, especially near railway stations and both sides of the Gurgaon and Agra canals, the areas are chock-a-block with slums. The sad part of the story is that a good number of first generation industrialists, who had got industrial plots inclusive of areas to set up residential accommodations for workers, did not abide by the obligation. They had been allotted plots during the initial phase of industrialisation at subsidised rates. A case in point is East India Cotton Mills, which has winded up business and sold its property. It was a large unit and was allotted land inclusive of dwelling provisions for workers, but it did not provide residences to the workers and also sold this land to a private party after winding up the business. The state at no stage interceded on behalf of the workers. Source: Tribune News Service By Ravi S. Singh 04-April-2008
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