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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write a detailed note on the effects of growing slums in urban areas.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India's urban share is projected to reach about 40 per cent, some 600 million people, by 2036, and the counted slum population rose from 42.6 million in 2001 to 65.5 million in 2011. The effects run two ways at once: slums impose costs on the city and simultaneously subsidise it.

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  • For the slum household: disadvantage reproduced across generations
  • For urban governance and municipal finance
  • For the urban labour market and the city's economy
  • For public health
  • The crime claim, examined
  • For urban politics
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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