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Discuss different forms of deprivation associated with slums.

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

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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