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Slums Of India Essay

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ABSTRACT
India is one of the fastest developing countries, proudly boasting of metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai. During last two decades; migration from villages and small towns to metropolitan areas has increased tremendously in India. This leads to the degradation of urban environmental quality and sustainable development, especially in the metropolitan cities. The problems faced by the people living in the urban areas of India have become major concerns for the government. Slums are considered to be the major issue within many urban areas; particularly problems related to transportation, population, health and safety. Considering today’s poor urban environmental quality in India, the majority of families affected by urban development projects are located in slum areas which are under consideration for resettlement and/ or rehabilitation.

INTRODUCTION
According to (UN-HABITAT) report, April 2007, India is a third world country that suffers from poverty, malnutrition, diseases, unhealthy conditions, and more in Indian slums. India alone is responsible for more deaths of children than any other country in the world. . Due to the dramatic rise of slums after India’s independence in 1947, its population has tripled.(UN-HABITAT, report, April 2007).Most of India’s population is …show more content…

There were main two reasons for slum development. One is Partition of India and the other is Industrial revolution after independence.Before 1950 slums were predominantly found around the mills,factories etc. They were mostly industrial workers in one room tenements. Health and Services provisions to these areas rose as main issues.Instead of going farther, the density of the slums started growing in and around the cities. From 1950 to 1968 the number of slums increased to 18%, in the 1970s they had a huge surge and by 1980 slum dwellers were half of the entire city's population. (Joshua Arbury,

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