Developers, architects should be ashamed of creating slums: Ratan Tata
Noted industrialist Ratan Tata on Monday lambasted developers and architects for treating slums as "residue" of the city, which, according to him, is one of the reasons for the rapid spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic in the megapolis. He also said the city builders should be ashamed of creating
Noted industrialist Ratan Tata on Monday lambasted developers and architects for treating slums as "residue" of the city, which, according to him, is one of the reasons for the rapid spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic in the megapolis. He also said the city builders should be ashamed of creating vertical slums across the cities.
"Affordable housing and slum elimination are two surprisingly conflicting issues. We're trying to remove slums from seemingly unsuitable living conditions by relocating them to other locations which are 20-30 miles away on one hand and on the other where there are no jobs for the uprooted people.
"The high-value housing units that have come up at a place where the slum once stood makes the slums a residue of development," Tata rued at an online discussion organised by Corpgini.
Tata, who always wanted to be an architect, said builders and architects have built vertical slums which have neither adequate fresh air, hygiene or open space. Tata said this community wants to be a part of the new India and the architects and developers are dogged by that issue.