sentences:  The ACT was the result of policy development that included grassroots slum dweller organisations, particularly SPARC.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 NSDF completed in 1995.