An Evaluation of the million houses programme in regional planning perspective

Abstract

In addition to the major economic problems such as unemployment, 1ow productivity, balance of payment problems etc; housing has also become one of the major problems in almost all the developing countries. In the year 2000, there will be two billion people crowded in the cities of developing countries. More than half of them carp rise the absolutely poor people living in cities.1 Slum and squatter living in urban areas in developing countries are increasing at a rate that is almost four times faster than overall world 2 population growth population During every 24 hours approximately 50,000 such poverty stricken children die p re-maturely due to lack of adequate shelter ^adequacy of food, water and proper sanitation 3 .