Author: Ahmed Saeed Shaikh
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-94-14
Year: 1994
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology
Examination Committee: Kioe Sheng Yap (Chairperson); K. S. Weber, R. W. Archer (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Karachi, with a 1992 population of 8.2 million is characterized by a dominant urban conflict . There is little or no land development or allocation by the government that is affordable by the urban poor. One of the consequence of this condition is the development and .spread of Katchi Abadis where more than 80% of the low income households lived in a state of permanent insecurity. The Katchi Abadi Improvement and Regularization Program (KAIRP) has addressed the issue since 1973 and formed the principal initiative to provide legal security and improvement to katchi abadis. Despite the explicit policies both at national and provin cia l levels KAIRP has not been able to achieve the desired results in terms of improvement, regularization and to limit the further growth of katchi abadis. The study focuses upon the social, physical and economical changes in squatter settlement with the positive change in their legal status. It presents the review and a na lysis of government policies towards squatter settlements’ upgrading in the context of its efficiency to reach the target group. From the field work undertaken in five squatte r settlements with different status, the results determine that people associate much importance to security of tenure for the physical development and there is no such pressure of displacement to katchi abadi residents. In the presence of loopholes in laws acquisition of lease is not a high priority provided that it is made convenient to acquire. KAIRP ana l ysis suggests that the regularization policy is incompatible for the target group, institutional arrangement are inefficient with no community participation and the decisions are politically influenced. Aforesaid situation finds its reasons in a combination of social and economic situation , institutional responses and above all political advocacies that prevails. Unless the is a political will, substantial leases are issued and a limit is observed on the expansion of katchi abadis wit hout further delay
Scholarship Donor(s): Canadian International Deve lopment Agency (CIDA)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science
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