BANGALORE: Behind the glitz and glass of IT City’s high-rises, are a rash of slums, home to at least 25% of the city’s population, which actively participate in its growth and functioning.
Slums are increasing in Karnataka, a highly urbanized state with 37% of its 6.11 crore people living in cities.
Official statistics from the Karnataka Slum Development Board (KSDB) say the state has 2,796 slums housing 40.5 lakh people. As Bangalore grows, the number of slums is increasing, taking the official number from 473 in 2003 to 597 in 2013. Officials say 13.86 lakh of the 84.25 lakh people in Bangalore (16.45%) live in slums. Experts term the figure “gross underestimation” and peg it between 25% and 35%. The urban poor live on government, private and railway lands. Most slum dwellers work as drivers, domestic helps, cooks, construction labourers, vegetable and fruit vendors, watchmen etc.
Bangalore is followed by the relatively under-developed Hubli-Dharwad with 105 slums, and heritage city Mysore houses 81 slums. Mangalore, however, is an exception with the least number of slums, and even those have basic facilities.
Experts say Bangalore has many temporary and scattered slums, which are hardly counted by officialdom. These include migrant workers living near construction sites, and other poor sections flowing into the city.
Issac Arul Selva, convener of Slum Jana Andolana, said: “The official figures are a gross underestimation. About 50% of the city’s population lives in single rooms, and can be classified as the urban poor. Many servants live in cars and houses of rich people, but are not counted.”
Kaveri RI, neuroscientist and member of the People’s Democratic Forum, has a word of caution. She said: “Demographic shifting of the rural population to urban areas and zero planning by the government to control migration to urban areas is leading to an increase in the number of slums. If the government fails to plan now, the poor have no choice but to live on the streets by 2017.”
Aphenomenal increase in realty prices is also leading to the mushrooming of slums. Even the government’s low-cost housing is unaffordable. Bangalore Development Authority, which is building flats for the poor, issued a notification on October 12, 2011, to construct 13,172 flats in 13 places on the city’s outskirts. It fixed Rs 7.5 lakh for a two-room flat, drawing a poor response.
Former Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority chairman Lingaraj Patil blames vote bank politics. “Many politicians help in the formation of slums for the votes,” he said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Urban-poor-squeeze-into-cities/articleshow/21945490.cms
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