Growth and Problems of Slums in Indian Cities
Kadi, A. S.; Halingali, B. I.
International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences 6(1): 61-77
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0973-1903 Document Number: 278069
The present paper deals with the size and structure of slums in Indian cities. Many of the demographic, social and economic characteristics of slum population have been studied. After presenting introduction in the Section 1, Section 2 gives the source of data used for the present study. Section 3 will give the size of slum population in India. In the next section we present size and distribution of urban slums. In Section 5 we have presented cities having slum population. Section 6 deals with slum population in cities with million plus population size. Section 7 deals with composition of SC and ST population in slum areas. We have presented the sex composition in cities and slum areas in Section 8. Section 9 and 10 presents literacy rates in slum and non slum areas and working slum population in million plus cities respectively. The last two sections devoted for the discussion of problem in slum area and relevant policies to eradicate slums in cities.