Nature and Causes of Growing Slum Problems in the metropolitan cities of India. Explain!

Increasing number of dirty slums has become the main problem of the town planning how a days. Number of dirty slums are increasing with the growing number of metropolitan cities. According to the official data, it has become clear that in cities almost 14.40 crore people live in slums. 45% of the people in the slums do not have pure drinking water and sanitation system.

The causes and nature of slums are as follows:-

Causes

• Development of industries and services are mainly concentrated incities.
• Lack of proper management and implementation of law on the part of town authorities.
• Unemployment in rural areas drift people to towns in search of job and without property they became slum dwellers.
• Important of all, cities have no space to accommodate immigrates in proper facilitated space so this result n increase of slums.

Nature

• They are dirty places without hygienic air, space or light.
• There are no sanitation system maintained properly.
• They lack pure drinking water facilities.
• Diseases and mortality rates are high.
• Slum colonies are not properly liveable.
• Slums develop at the outer edges of cities, on sides of roads and other cheap places.
• Law and order is also not properly maintained.

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