Rise of Urban Poverty in India

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   As cities across the globe rapidly change and develop, life is becoming increasingly difficult for those who left behind it. In India, the causes of urban poverty can be linked to  lack of infrastructure in rural areas, which is forcing its inhabitants to seek out for work in India’s mega-cities. Main responsible factors are included in increase rate of rising population,Less productivity in agriculture,Less utilization of natural resources, a short rate of economic development, huge rate of illiteracy, Increases in products price,unemployment etc. 

People continue to move away from rural areas to developed cities that's why the ratio of urban poverty has slowly increase. Because of their poor economic condition they can't able afford good housing facilities and healthy food, medical facilities, water, electricity ect and they are facing several problems like homelessness or living in slums area, access to water,public transportation ,job, good education etc… Surprisingly, and what makes many say that many government Indian officials don’t still give a damn about the poor peoples, and theirs social housing and lifestyle. Surveyors have essentially use the shortcut tools to count the numbers of poor people living in urban slums areas around the world for more then three decades. With potentially outmoded tools, it's seems like that the numbers they are report are off base, most likely too low from the reality.

Poverty is more prevalentable in rural areas comparatively from urban area, but the gap is gradually closing and many surveyors says that many Indian states report higher poverty figure in urban areas. Which is negatively affecting health, education, sanitation and general livelihoods, urban poverty creates serious difficulties for those groups of women, children and the elder peoples whom are living in slums areas.

    Now the urban poverty in India is over 25 percent, according to 2001's report Indian cities have a slum population of 23.7 pecents which are living in urban areas. The majorty means around 11.2 millions of them are only living in Maharashtra. Whose capital city Mumbai is home of Dharvi slums. According to 2009 report Around 81 million peoples  are living in urban areas with low income. By 2030  urbanisation is projected to reach 50 present. Recently in 2019, the Indian government stated that 6.7% of its population is below its official poverty limit.

   Since 2020 due to this deadly covid-19 pandemic the cycle of economic growth has worsley impacted.City dwellers mainly the poor informal sector workers are badly affected for this pandemic. Social distancing norms, lockdown in all over the country and continuesly extention of lockdown,shutting down of markets, factories and other sources of theirs income has badly affected and allied activities have also paralyzed the work opportunities for these sections of urban populations and this is an another cause of rising urban poverty.