Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1973 Preamble 1 - Bare Act

Act Info:

THE ¹ [KARNATAKA] SLUM AREAS (IMPROVEMENT AND CLEARANCE) ACT, 1973²

[ACT, No. 33 of 1974]

[1st October, 1974]

PREAMBLE

An Act to provide for the improvement and clearance of slums in the State of ¹ [Karnataka].

WHEREAS the number of slums in certain areas in the State of ¹ [Karnataka] is increasing and is a source of danger to public health and sanitation of the said areas;

And whereas under the existing law it has not been possible effectively to check the increase, to eliminate congestion and to provide for basic needs such as streets, water-supply and drainage and to clear the slums which are unfit for human habitation;

And whereas to obviate this difficulty it is expedient to provide for the removal of un-hygienic and insanitary conditions prevailing in the slums, for better accommodation and improved living conditions for slum dwellers, for the promotion of public health generally and for the acquisition of land for the purpose of improving, developing or redeveloping slum areas, clearance of slums and rehabilitation of slum dwellers;

And whereas the Constitution of India enjoins, as a Directive Principle of State Policy that the State should improve public health;

Be it enacted by the ¹ [Karnataka] State Legislature in the Twenty-Fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

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1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws order 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1923.

2. First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Seventh day of October, 1974.