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Examine the role of high population concentration in Indian slums in making them more vulnerable during pandemic conditions like the COVID-19.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Settlements

Density is persons per unit area; crowding is persons per room and per sanitary point. Slums are extreme on both, but the pandemic mechanism runs almost wholly through the second.

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  • Density and crowding are not the same variable
  • What concentration actually sets in motion
  • Testing the claim against the evidence
  • Judgement — concentration fixed exposure, not the death rate

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