Economic and Demographic Analysis of Urban Slum - A Case Study of Mumbai Slums

Abstract

Urbanization and urban poverty has emerged an important challenge for policy makers across the world, particularly developing countries. Urban slums a byproduct of unplanned urbanization has long been caught the attention of researchers. Urban poverty is multi-dimensional. The urban poor face multiple deprivations - inadequate access to affordable housing, basic civic services like water, sanitation, drainage, solid waste management, roads, street lighting, health care, education and social security, and livelihoods opportunities. As   the number of people living in urban areas is growing day by day India is rapidly marching towards urbanization.. Approximately 31% of population of India resides in urban areas (GOI, Census of India, 2011) and with 70% of expected urban population growth during 2000-2050, it will be a major contributor in expected urban population increment globally The main objective of the paper is to discuss slum population, which is considered as an offshoot of urbanization by taking Mumbai as a case study.   

Keywords- Urban poverty, Slums, Socio-Demographic profile, Poverty Line