Where should I live? “Vanishing slums”
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Slums are demolished nearly every week in India because the land has become too valuable, or the slum has become an eyesore, or when a politician wants to push out opposition voters. Meanwhile residents are left struggling against landlords, corrupt bureaucrats and an inept, overburdened legal system that gives them little recourse to justice when the bulldozers come. - Photo by AP
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May 21, 2011 08:14am
India is demolishing slums ? The slums in India are vanishing? Perhaps India is entering the ranks of the developed nations and what constitutes a "slum" is changing ? More than slums India needs to control her population explosion?
It would be great if slums vanished in Pakistan and were upgraded to higher quality dwelling places - or they vanished because the quality of life of the people was improved? Or the land was better regulated and zoning laws were enforced in the cities to lessen congestion, overcrowding, pollution and noise? Or maybe that is to be left only to the developed countries of the world ?
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