%0 Unpublished Work %D 1975 %T Memorandum submitted by young architects: to the Prime Minister Smt. Indra Gandhi on 12th August, 1975 %A Chhaya, Himanshu Dil Sukh Rai %A Dabral, Satish %A Gupta, Vinod %A Kamath, Vasant %A Romi Khosla %A Narendra Dengle %A MN Ashish Ganju %K Slums %K Social Housing %K The Prime Ministers office (PMO-India) %K Urbanisation %X

A group of young Architect have come forth with a proposal of new ways of solving the problems of the poor in the modern process of urbanisation.

The architects who called on the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Tuesday the 12th, have suggested a dialogue between the slum dwellers and the designers. Such a dialogue is totally Missing today, the architects pointed out. They also expressed their concern over the deteriorating physical and social environments caused by the insensitive handling of massive housing projects for the poor. Slum dwellers generally have an identifiable and cohesive community life which tends to be overlooked by the administrators of these projects. This results in increase of social tensions in such colonies and takes away from the poor their most valuable asset—the collective spirit. Among the architects who met Mrs. Gandhi were the winners of the Low-Cost Housing competitions including H.D. Chyya, Satish Debral, Narendra Dengle, M.N. Ganju, Vinod Gupta, Vasant Kamat, Romi Khosla.

Mrs. Gandhi remarked that it was the first time that she had found architects being concerned about the social and physical quality of the environment of the poor in urban and rural areas. She welcomed the suggestions.

Patriot-13/8/75

%S GREHA %I Greha %C Delhi, India %G eng %9 Memorandum %! The Profession