Geographical analysis
Department of Geography & GIS
Department of Geography & GIS
Geographical analysis
DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v11i1.22.4
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 18-21
Original Article
M B Shivanna1*
1Head of Department of Geography, Govt. First Grade College, Vijayanagara, Bangalore
*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:10 February 2022, Accepted Date:18 April 2022
One in every people in the world will live in slums. Within 30 years unless government control unprecedented urban growth, according to a UN report. Urbanization and industrialization have led to increase slum population at rapid in India. Major cities of India like, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mysore have experiences slums. In India, 350 million population lives in urban areas. Which constitute 30% of the population of India as per 2001 census. Generally slums are specific geographic areas that are physically and socially deteriorated, economically backward and house a floating and often marginalized people. Bangalore also has more number of slums that are spread in all the parts of the city.
Keywords Geographical Analysis of slums
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Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
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