भारत सरमेंट एसी खल्लूमी उपजा है कि जिसका समालन किसा जाना है - निविष्ट समालन किसा जाना है - निविष्ट समालन किसा जाना है | सुदेशन होती है | (250 शब्दों में उत्तर दीजिए) 15 अंक Slums are not 'problems' that have to be 'solved' - but are indeed a result of lopsided and vested urban policies covering infrastructure provision and socio-economic issues. Analyse.
Introduction
The role of "slums" and "slum-dwellers" in making a city is overlooked and yet cities in recent past have been apotheotic to slums.
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Living are not problems, these have to be "lived" – slum-dwellers provide services and allow serenity, availability of cheap labour across poor areas. Slum dwellers provide immense capacity and security availability of cheap labour across poor areas.
Slums are a result of lopsided and vested policies:
1. Unplanned expansion of urban areas
2. Lack of affordability of urban housing and proper urban planning and poor urban infra
3. Failure to understand "seasonal migration" or "circular migration" – no support systems for migrants in urban
5. Higher inflation/cost of living in urban areas
6. No support for local development – wealth, education, etc.
7. Laws not followed
In Dharavi, many slum dwellers have not used the government plots allocated to them. Instead, sold them off, and slum habitation continued.
Conclusion
Way Forward includes PM Awas Urban, RAJIV's Mission with regularization of slums, provision of essential services, transit-oriented development, and improvement of local bodies
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- Identifies slums as result of policy failures rather than inherent problems
- Acknowledges positive role of slum-dwellers in urban economy
- Lists multiple systemic causes
Kush Motwani
Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India
Urbanization, their problems and their remedies
Slums and urban housing policies
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