• Darshan J. Mehta
• Vivek Mishra
• Harsh Vasoya
• Parth Desani
• Nidhi Gandhi

Urbanization and faster speed of our life have let us live a happy and smooth life but with accordance to the advancement there adds a discomfort to the city life. The urban population in India has increased significantly from 62 million in 1951 to 285 million in 2001 and is estimated to grow to around 560 million by the year 2021. It would be touching 37% of the total population in next 15 years. Many cities have slum population as high as 35% to 40%. The city of Surat is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The present population of the city is 44.62 lacs with an area of 326.52 sq. km. This paper examines how the rights of slum can and must be met for present and future generations and highlights the sustainable planning for slum dwellers and their housing strategies. Using the human rights framework, the paper analyses states common approaches to its water and sanitation, particularly in adopting measures both during times of normalcy and during economic and financial crises, and shows how those approaches often fail to incorporate sustainability. In this paper, we tried to reach the stack holders and users to get the problems according to them rather than studying it or classifying it as a whole. The purpose reach from the classification of their problems and providing sustainable temporary solution to them such that the time till they are living there they should live not suffer their living. As a part of the conclusion to the paper we have declared the feasible sustainable solution to the problems they face.

Dwellers, Planning, Population, Slum, Sustainable, Urbanization

"Alternative Approaches for Sustainability of Slum: A Case Study of Surat City", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 11, page no.1-7, November-2015, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1511001.pdf

"Alternative Approaches for Sustainability of Slum: A Case Study of Surat City", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 11, page no. pp1-7, November-2015, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1511001.pdf