भारत सरमेंट एसी खल्लूमी उपजा है कि जिसका समालन किसा जाना है - निविष्ट समालन किसा जाना है - निविष्ट समालन किसा जाना है | सुदेशन होती है | (250 शब्दों में उत्तर दीजिए) 15 अंक Slums are not 'problems' that have to be 'solved' - but are indeed a result of lopsided and vested urban policies covering infrastructure provision and socio-economic issues. Analyse.

Living are not problems, these have to be "lived" – slum-dwellers provide services and allow serenity, availability of cheap labour across poor areas. Slum dwellers provide immense capacity and security availability of cheap labour across poor areas.

Slums are a result of lopsided and vested policies:

1. Unplanned expansion of urban areas

2. Lack of affordability of urban housing and proper urban planning and poor urban infra

3. Failure to understand "seasonal migration" or "circular migration" – no support systems for migrants in urban

4. Socio-economic distress – lack of support system for women → access to women and child development, abuse violence & higher in urban areas, poor nutrition, cost of living in urban areas

5. Higher inflation/cost of living in urban areas

6. No support for local development – wealth, education, etc.

7. Laws not followed

In Dharavi, many slum dwellers have not used the government plots allocated to them. Instead, sold them off, and slum habitation continued.

— Kush Motwani · AIR 11