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Write short note on Possibilities of slum reform.

  • UPSC 2009
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Census 2011 counted 6.55 crore slum dwellers, about 17.4% of the population of slum-reporting towns, up from 5.24 crore in 2001. A slum is defined less by poverty than by insecure tenure; reform therefore means converting an unrecognised settlement into a serviced, secure habitat rather than removing it. What is possible depends on how the…

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