Until recently, Vikas Gawali lived in a one-room shack with his wife, two daughters, his mother, his older brother and sister-in-law, their children, and another brother—12 people in a single room.

Gandhinagar: State govt spokesperson Jitu Vaghani said on Wednesday that Surat was poised to become India's first slum-free ...

NEW DELHI, May 17 (Reuters) - The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government said on Thursday. Urban slum ...

Slum inhabitants are living in spaces that are overcrowded, unplanned, and without equitable access to transportation, water, and sanitation. Without the infrastructure or the resources for household ...

Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 3.5% In 2018, Belize had an urban population of 174,000. In the country, only 6,000 people lived in slums, which is the second-lowest absolute ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Mumbai - known as the City of Dreams- is home to thousands of migrants who come to earn their daily bread. Residing in Maximum City isn't easy; people have to endure many challenges- including the ...

Over 10 lakh Antyodaya families in Gujarat's slums received free electricity under the Jhumpda Vijalikaran Yojana. In the last five years, ₹8,499 lakh was spent to electrify 1,52,466 slums, with the ...