One Nation One Housing Policy Prepared and Documented For Indian Sub-Continent In Line With Sustainable Development Goal 2030, Vision 11 Of Total Vision 17 As Per United Nations
We, the Authors wish to state that we have been championing for the cause of eradicating shelter lessness from 2018 onwards. This is our tenth article in Tax Guru and all the readers can go through it and prepare presentations depending upon the profession they do. For the sake of readers, we are reproducing the entire vision No. 11 which talks about affordable and adequate housing. This should be read with various united nations special rapporteurs reports and get more clarity also we suggest people should know what is extreme poverty and measures needed to eradicate poverty. Inequality and poverty are two sides of the same coin. Most of the inequality arises from different guideline rates which are of revenue nature. But land should be used as an economic input in creation of shelter. Asset valuation or utility valuation is the crux of the issue.
Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11 or Global Goal 11), titled “sustainable cities and communities”, is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The official mission of SDG 11 is to “Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. The 17 SDGs take into account that action in one area will affect outcomes in other areas as well, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability
Sustainable Development Goal 11 is divided into 10 targets and 14 indicators at the global level. The seven “outcome targets” are:
11.1– “Adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums”
11.2– “Safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems”
11.3– “Enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries”
11.4– “Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage”
11.5– “Reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected by disasters and decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters”
11.6– “Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management”
11.7– “Provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces”
The three “means of achieving” targets are:
11.a– “Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning”
11.b– “Increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, holistic disaster risk managements at all levels”
11.c– “Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials”
SDG 11 has 10 targets to be achieved, and this is being measured with 15 indicators. The seven “outcome targets” include safe and affordable housing, affordable and sustainable transport systems, inclusive and sustainable urbanization, protection of the world’s cultural and natural heritage, reduction of the adverse effects of natural disasters, reduction of the environmental impacts of cities and to provide access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces. The three “means of achieving” targets include strong national and regional development planning, implementing policies for inclusion, resource efficiency, and disaster risk reduction in supporting the least developed countries in sustainable and resilient building. 3.9 billion people—half of the world’s population—currently live in cities globally. It is projected that 5 billion people will live in cities by 2030. Cities across the world occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, yet account for 60–80 percent of energy consumption and 75 percent of carbon emissions. Increased urbanization requires increased and improved access to basic resources such as food, energy and water. In addition, basic services such as sanitation, health, education, mobility and information are needed. However, these requirements are unmet globally, which causes serious challenges for the viability and safety of cities to meet increased future demands.
SDG 11 represents a shift in international development cooperation from a focus on poverty as a rural phenomenon to recognizing that cities, especially in the global south, are facing major challenges with extreme poverty, environmental degradation and risks due to climate change and natural disasters. Despite its ambiguous targets and goals, is still an important tool for addressing urban challenges and calls for actors to develop realistic, locally defined indicators and outputs to fit the urban context of specific cities to promote more sustainable, inclusive and equal cities.
From the above, the readers should understand the issues posed by the global and how India should approach this issues. The entire ten articles published in Tax Guru from 2018 onwards, which is available in pdf format may please be clubbed so that all READERS, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, COST ACCOUNTANTS, LAWYERS, RERA BROKERS, ARCHITECTS, BANKERS, VALUERS, CENTRAL BANK AUTHORITIES, WORLD BANK AND OTHER RESEARCHERS, STUDENTS, MEMBERS OF BUDGET FORMATION, MONITORY POLICY, INSURANCE INDUSTRY BOTH LIFE AND NON-LIFE, MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY, FIXED INTEREST, SECURITY MARKET, FICCI, CII, ASSOCHEM, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, NAREDCO, CREDAI, NSE AND BSE MEMBERS, SEBI, RERA and whomsoever we have left should understand what we are trying to tell about this one nation one housing policy.
This policy will definitely make housing cheaper and as fundamental right.
Each and every 5000 tier 1,2,3 cities and 6 lakh villages should have their revenue records and survey numbers and registration services in the prescribed national format and move forward to have national property registration portal.
If our thinking process is right, Government has already notified changes in assignment rights in last budget and as a next step ministry of co-operation is formed to have a uniform co-operative societies formed . This will help achieve uniform housing for all by forming co-operative housing societies and central government in a position to give land for the housing needs through controller of land compensation bonds. Land valuation and input costs will be same and beneficiaries across the country will be in a position to buy at uniform rates as rights both in quantity and value , measured in FSI and cost of construction per sq. ft.
We humbly request government of India to notify shelter as a right because already indications are there that UNITED STATES may declare shelter as a right.
We hope this budget should aim at eradicating shelter lessness and the theme of the budget should be ONE NATION ONE HOUSING POLICY.
