Slums in India: making sense of place in urban planning

Cities are the growth engine of national wealth and income production; however large number of city dwellers circumvents from the mainstream, are snubbed dwellers called slum population. Existence of slums in the urban units is a challenging issue in urban planning. India experiences a very sharp growth rate of slum population over the decades. Present work focuses on a conundrum of uninterrupted slum growth in spite of the implementation of many slum removal policies in India. The state-level household amenity status reflects a quite debatable agenda as to whether or not slum up-gradation policies are succeeded and works as a significant planning tool. The up-gradation of individual slum unit through the bottom-up approach of plan may act as effective action. This work finally directs a comprehensive planning tool for slum up-gradation as well as overall urban development, by placing the slum issues in urban planning practice.