Odisha’s Jaga Mission is among the winners of World Habitat Awards 2023. The award is organised by World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat – recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.
Key points
- World Habitat is a charity organisation recognised by the Department of Public Information of the United Nations.
- Jaga Mission is the largest land titling and slum upgrading scheme in Odisha and one of the largest in the world.
- The project is ongoing and is scaling up across Odisha state thanks to a mentoring model, under which 62 specially trained mentors from 28 pilot cities have gone to support other cities during their slum upgrading work.
- Their experience has helped orientate newer cities to the programme’s nuances, speeding up the upgrade process.
- Jaga Mission demonstrates that empowering these marginalised communities is a very effective way to achieve large-scale slum upgrading schemes and promote equality for millions of India’s urban poor.
