By TCN News,
Hyderabad: ‘Roushan Basti ‘Project, an initiative to bring light of knowledge, prosperity, empathy and morality is launched here at Arsh Mahal slum in Kishan Bagh.
The project was launched on Sunday by Human Welfare Foundation (HWF) Telangana and AP Chapter with an aim to reach out to the grassroots with distinct preference for the depressed and the disadvantaged sections and to enable them in attaining all that a common citizen cherishes.
This initiative is also important considering the fact that the census of 2011 reported around 22.7 lakh (32.7%) of Hyderabad city’s population resides in 5.07 lakh slum households meaning one amongst three people in Hyderabad is a slum dweller.
Kishan Bagh is one of the riot affected slums of the city and this project is a milestone of the journey to development. As part of community development initiative, HWF decided to adopt the Arsh Mahal slum for aforesaid development. It has demarcated the specified 500 houses of the slum and conducted extensive survey.
HWF team has done an extensive survey of nearly 460 households at Arsh Mahal and has prepared a survey report on type of houses, basic amenities, age and gender breakdown of the population there, marital status, literacy, school dropout data, occupation data, neonatal health, immunization, chronic disease details, disability cases, bank accounts, loan status & Adhar card availability, Voter ID and DOB Certificate availability, senior citizen and scholarship status.
Some of the key initiatives of the project are intensive door-to-door survey to assess the status of households, education, health and livelihood; build a mechanism to improve access to education for students and address challenges that cause bad results and increase in the number of drop-outs; enable the adults to earn an income which can fulfill the basic needs of their family efficiently; build mechanism to improve access to health facilities; build and promote a healthy, hygienic and disease-free environment, and create an environment of communal harmony, tolerance and respect among all sections of society.
The Foundation has planned to carry out the project in three yearly phases till 2019 with action plan that includes the areas in Education & Ethics, Legal & Peace, Healthcare, Govt Welfare Schemes, Livelihood, Evaluation and Advisory.