About the Book: Urban Poverty: Issues and Challenges
Urban poverty has been a major challenge faced by the city dwellers, in
general, and the urban managers and administrators, in particular. Urban poverty
in India remains high at over 25 percent. Over 80 million poor people live in
the towns and cities of India. Indias urban poverty is largely an extension or
reflection of rural poverty. There is an unceasing flow of immigrants from rural
India to the major towns and cities in our country. It has caused almost
unmanageable problems of poverty, unemployment, slum and squatter growth, and
several other infrastructural, social and economic problems. The