The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Monday approved an action plan to make Delhi a slum free city by 2015 and decided to take up phase-wise relocation of a large number of clusters. It also announced the decision to allot 1,400 flats in January as part of the first phase of its relocation plan.

At a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, the Board decided to begin allotment of residential units to jhuggi-jhonpri dwellers from January.