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INNOVATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND PRACTICES IN LAND-TITLING: LEARNING FROM JAGA MISSION ODISHA.

Date: 14 May 2021
Time: 4:00 pm
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INNOVATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND PRACTICES IN LAND-TITLING: LEARNING FROM JAGA MISSION ODISHA.
 
JAGA Mission, under the Housing & Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha, aims at transforming the slums into liveable habitat with all necessary civic infrastructure and services, to continuously improve the standard of living and access to livelihood opportunities by implementing the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2017.
 
The JAGA Mission granted in-situ, heritable and non-transferable land titles to as many as 200,000 households living in 2,000 slums in Odisha. What lessons can we draw from JAGA Mission?
What were the real obstacles to this radical process of land titling? What kind of technological and governance innovations were required in order to operationalise the scheme on the ground, given the complexity of issues around land titles in India? What are the unintended consequences of granting land titles? Were some groups persistently neglected or excluded from such schemes, thus exacerbating existing socioeconomic inequalities?
 
This panel engages with these questions while attempting to understand whether and how land titles make a difference to the urban poor.
Panelists
 
Chair: BHUVANESWARI RAMAN, Professor, O P Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
 
Panelist: ANTARIN CHAKRABARTY, Senior Researcher and State Team Lead, JAGA (Odisha Liveable Habitat) Mission, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi
 
Panelist: ANAND LAKHAN, Housing and land rights activist from Indore, co-convener of the National Forum for Housing Rights India
 
Panelist: GOBINDA DALAI, Mentor and Co-founder of Yuva Vikas, Odisha; Former consultant on policy and implementation space in housing, water, sanitation and governance with Govt of Odisha.
 
Date: 14th May, Friday
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm (IST)
The webinar is scheduled on Zoom and all attendees are required to register for the session through the Registration link provided below.
 
About the Series:
This is a collaborative effort between the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance, TISS Mumbai and Omidyar Network India. The purpose of the series is to create interdisciplinary dialogue amongst academic scholars and practitioners, activists and policymakers with a focus on:
Contemporary developments related to, and ongoing experiments in, making land and housing more accessible and inclusive.
Addressing themes related to land rights for marginalised urban groups, issues and challenges of real estatization, the commons as a way of contesting the commodification of land, and formal and informal land markets in the Global South, and theorizing land and social relations around land.