According to a Human Development Report by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mumbai has lived up to its pseudonym Slumbai. The report has confirmed that the city is home to India's maximum number of slum dwellers.
More than half (54.1%) the population of the country's financial capital dwells in slums. Percentages for other key metros are nowhere close to Mumbai. Kolkata has 11.72%, Chennai has 25.60%, while the National Capital has 18.9% of its population living in slums. It is worth noting that in 2006-07, the Mumbai had a per capita income of Rs 65,361, which more than double of India’s average per capita income of Rs 29,382.
By the way, the report is based on the 2001 Census. Many of you may remember that the present Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra has recently decided to legalise all slums that have come up till early 2000. Just for the record, previously the slums till 1985 were regularised, followed by 1995.
Mumbai - the Capital of Maharashtra - is home to Dharavi, one of the biggest slum areas in the world. Incidentally, Dharavi used to be Asia's largest slum but not anymore. The Report has given this dubious honour to a Pakistani township called Orangi in Karachi.
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Evan (Oct 12, 2009)
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How can we just sit around, not giving aid to these slums? People are going through ordeals there we coulnd't imagine, and yet we go through our luxurious lifestyle living like princes (or princesses). We should change, and soon.
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