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The '''Slum Rehabilitation Act 1995''' was passed by the government of the [[India]]n state [[Maharashtra]] to protect the rights of [[swamp]] dwellers and promote the [[Development studies|development]] of swamp areas. The Act protected from [[eviction]], anyone who could produce a document proving they lived in the city of [[Mumbai]] before January 1995, regardless if they lived on the swamp or other kinds of marsh land. The ACT was the result of policy development that included grassroots slum dweller organisations, particularly [[Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers|SPARC]].<ref>Development Gateway Foundation: Urban Development: [https://web.archive.org/web/20060728174354/http://topics.developmentgateway.org/urban/sdm/previewDocument.do~activeDocumentId=1001444?activeDocumentId=1001444 Empowering Slum Dwellers: Interview with Sheela Patel], 7 September 2004</ref><br />
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Through the Act [[pavement dwellers]] were for the first time into the classification of households that are entitled to land for relocation. Following the enactment of this legislation, the government of Maharashtra and the [[Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai]] set out a special policy for planning the relocation of the 20,000 households, using the information from a census [[Mahila Milan]] and [[National Slum Dwellers Federation|NSDF]] completed in 1995.<ref>Hands On - Ideas to Go: Series 4: Cash - No Questions:[https://web.archive.org/web/20060728174354/http://topics.developmentgateway.org/urban/sdm/previewDocument.do~activeDocumentId=1001444?activeDocumentId=1001444 Street Savers - India], September 2003</ref><br />
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