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An attempt has been made for the first time during
the Census of India, 2001 to collect detailed data about slum areas
of the country particularly in cities/towns having 50,000 population
or more based on 1991 census. All the inhabitants of the areas,
which have been notified as slums by the state governments under
any legal provisions or even recognized by them, have been accordingly
considered as slum population for this purpose. Besides areas in
cities/towns, which satisfy the usual criteria for declaring an
area as slum have also been included.
For the purpose of Census of India, 2001, the
slum areas broadly constitute of :-
- All specified areas notified as 'Slum' by State/Local Government
and UT Administration under any Act;
- All areas recognized as 'Slum' by State/Local Government
and UT Administration which may have not been formally notified
as slum under any Act;
- A compact area of at least 300 population or about 60-70
households of poorly built congested tenements, in unhygienic
environment usually with inadequate infrastructure and lacking
in proper sanitary and drinking water facilities.
The Directorate of Census Operations in consultation
with the State Government/Local Authorities were asked to identify
slum areas in municipal towns having population of 50,000 or more
as per 1991 census. Therefore, the estimates of slum population
given below primarily are confined to cities and towns having more
than 50,000 population at the 1991 Census. Though the criteria
adopted for formation of slum EBs was confined to municipal towns
having 50,000 population, however, in a few stray cases even the
non municipal towns were found to have large number of slum areas,
necessitating formation of slum EBs by the local authorities. For
instance in National Capital Region of Delhi, eleven Census towns
and in Uttar Pradesh one Census town have reported slum population.
In addition to these, six towns, one in Bihar, two in Madhya Pradesh,
two in Gujarat and one in Maharashtra, could qualify the population
criteria of 50,000 after adding population of outgrowths as returned
for Census of India, 1991. In case of Shillong, slum areas were
notified in the entire urban agglomeration as such slum population
has been reported from the Shillong urban agglomeration.
Slum population has been reported from 26 States/Union
territories. Nine States/Union territories, namely, Himachal Pradesh,
Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Dadra & Nagar
Haveli, Daman & Diu and Lakshadweep have not reported any slum
population in their cities/towns.
The first table on slum data is provided in two
parts include the number and population of cities/towns reporting
slum, total slum population and slum population in 0-6 age group
and literate slum population by sex - India & State/Union territory.
The second table, also provided i two parts give population, slum
population, and slum population in 0-6 age group and literate slum
population by sex in million plus cities.
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