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Maha slum definition flawed: Panel report [1]

MUMBAI: An expert committee of the Union housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry has pointed out in a report how some major states, including Maharashtra, have "grossly underestimated their slum population" by not using proper parameters.

The report, submitted to the ministry recently, said Maharashtra and the other states did not use a comprehensive definition for a squatter and some ca

Publication Date: 
16/11/2010
Times Of India (Mumbai) [2]
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Maharashtra [3], Slums [4], Habitat And Urbanisation [5], Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation [6]
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