A 2-page document on the National Slum Development Programme (NSDP), which was inaugurated and launched by the Prime Minister of India in August 1996 at Kanpur in (U.P). Under National Slum Development Programme, Additional Central Assistance (ACA) was being released to the States/UTs for the development of urban slums. The objective of this programme was the upgradation of urban slums by providing physical amenities like water supply, stormwater drains, community baths, widening and paving of existing lanes, sewers, community latrines, street lights etc.