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Discuss different forms of deprivation associated with slums.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

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In India, slum deprivation is legally graded before it is materially graded. The NSS 69th round (2012) estimated 33,510 urban slums, 41 per cent notified and 59 per cent not — and almost every service gap tracks that administrative line. Amartya Sen's capability framing (Development as Freedom, 1999) supplies the lens: the slum household is…

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  • The measured deprivations, and the legal line that grades them
  • Tenure — the deprivation that produces the others
  • The body and the life course
  • Stigma and voice — the deprivations surveys miss
  • Conclusion
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