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Figure 2: Rapid rural - urban migration

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roadblocks to the provision of population in metro cities lives with more than 40% households
adequate supply of affordable in declared slums, with Mumbai living in single room and
housing in urban India for the (41.3%) and Kolkata (29.6%) another 30% in two rooms, in
poor include: recording higher proportions. metropolitan centers like
Rural- Urban Migration Slums and size of cities have Kolkata and Mumbai. In mega
been found to be positively co- cities, if the density of
The demand for shelter,
related with large centers population in EWS/LIG housing
specifically for the urban poor,
recording higher number of has increased substantially, the
has outpaced the supply. The
slums and slum dwellers. availability of housing space per
situation is worse in the case of capita has declined rapidly,
low-income groups, due to Growing Housing Shortage
thereby adversely impacting
migration of rural population to The 'Technical Group on urban
quality of life and family
urban areas in search of be er housing shortage for the 12th
privacy.
employment opportunities. Plan' constituted by Ministry of
These migrants, due to limited Housing and Urban Poverty Lack of Reliable Data
availability of housing options Alleviation (MoHUPA) in 2012, One of the major hurdles in
are forced to squat on public estimated the urban housing tackling the housing problem for
lands. Growth of slums is stated shortage to be at 18.78 million poor is the absence of
to be due to inability of people to dwelling units (mdu) in 2012, authenticated data of
afford land and shelter through spread over EWS (56.2%), LIG beneficiaries & households
the normal market mechanism (39.4%) and MIG/HIG (4.4%) requiring rehabilitation and
and failure on the part of public categories. Urban housing, housing. Despite best efforts
agencies to ensure their besides suffering from the made to assess and project the
equitable access to the urban malice of quantitative shortage, demand for housing realistically,
poor. Nearly 25 percent also have qualitative issues the ground realities have always

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