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100			_aSingh, Manjit and Kuamr, Sandeep _961033
245			_aDisempowering the urban poor: Housing rights and basic services for squatters in Amritsar
260			_aNagarlok: Quarterly journal of Urban Affairs
300			_a57(3), Sep, 2025: p.315-328
520			_aThe article examines the challenges faced by squatters in Punjab, including limited access to basic services, threats of demolition, and lack of property rights. The Punjab government’s Improvement and Clearance Act 1961 obstructs the provision of land and basic services to non-notified squatters, causing poor environmental conditions and preventing them from investing in shelter upgrading. Western elitists’ perspectives on the urban poor have shaped national and provincial legal systems, housing policies, and city planning. The present article calls for immediate government intervention to amplify the voices of the marginalised, describing the Punjab government’s approach as exclusionist and undemocratic, particularly regarding the refusal to grant property rights on land held by the government and local bodies.- Reproduced https://www.printspublications.com/journal/article/nagarlok--quarterly-journal-of-urban-affairs--a-ugccare-listed-journal/4407
650			_aSquatter, Urban poor, Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission (Janurm) basic series for the urban poor (BSUP), Vulnerability, Tenure rights. _961034
773			_aNagarlok: Quarterly journal of Urban Affairs
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