This paper questions the accuracy and validity of the criticisms made by Ananya Roy regarding the approach to community development of a Mumbai-based NGO, SPARC, and its partner grassroots federations in Mumbai. This includes the suggestion that the focus on sanitation rather than on land tenure is an appeal to middle-class values about cleanliness and that their support for relocating those who lived right next to the railway tracks made them agents of the state.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/social-inclusion-mumbai-economics-matters-too
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/robert-m-buckley
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environment-urbanization
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-sanitation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mumbai
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-land-use
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/toilets
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/slums
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-transport
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rail-transport
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-tenure
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/subsidies
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/governance
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economy