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Are slums the manifestations of industrialisation and urbanisation in India? Explain.
- UPSC 2024
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- Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
Census 2011 counted 65.5 million slum residents, about 17 per cent of the urban population, spread over 2,613 of India's 4,041 statutory towns. The distribution itself frames the answer: slums cluster where cities grew, not where industry grew. A. R. Desai and S. Devadas Pillai, in Slums and Urbanisation (1970), read the Bombay slum as…
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- Yes — the slum is the housing arm of the urban economy
- But industrialisation is the weaker half of the causal chain
- The causes industrialisation does not cover
- Conclusion
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