Slums are increasing by the year in Bangalore and in other urban areas of Karnataka, which is one of the highly urbanized states with 37% of its 6.11 crore people living in urban areas. BANGALORE ...

Being the new India often requires supplanting, or ignoring, the old. Unlike other mega-cities in the country, the slums here do not lay openly next to luxury condos. An estimated fifth of Bangalore’s ...

MUMBAI, India — About one in six Indian city residents lives in an urban slum with unsanitary conditions that are “unfit for human habitation,” according to the first complete census of ...

Researchers say recognising slums would aid in them dealing with flooding as unrecognised slums are left out of government schemes and ... Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Jul 29, 2024, 06.00 AM IST.

Bangalore: In the clean and green cities of India, one can also find those dark alleys, shabby and tiny areas that homes a million people - the slums. The number of slum dwellers is on the rise due to ...

The letter stated, “The slum is planned in the middle of Anjanapura’s 10th and 11th blocks, next to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board water tank, which has high chances of ...

The last comprehensive slum census in India was conducted in 2011. It showed 65 million people lived in slums across urban areas.