Slums almost contribute nearly 30-45% of total urban population in India.... It is the need of the hour to address the problem
Please express your thoughts friends, academicians and policy makers.
Plenty of funds, but misused. 1. Lack of initiative 2. Lack of proper funding. 3 few promises / hopes for higher posts / any good posts in fact. 4. Unhelpful /
discouraging environment.5 lack sociological / economic studies.
it's partly linked to the fact that people that live in slums are poor and have little access to power to affect their conditions. Governments tend to pay little attention to their developmental needs, e.g infrastructure development etc. They rather look at slums as eye sores whose long-term fate is their eradication. In fact an article in the latest issue of the Economist about Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, suggests that one finds a lot of initiative, hard work and enterprise amongst residents but with no involvement nor support from the Kenyan government.
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