Status of Urban Slums in Gujarat and Rajasthan: A Case Study of Seven Cities

Dilapidated dwellings, overcrowding and lack of basic infrastructure, characterize neighbourhoods whose residents live in poor urban areas, faced with insecurity and squalor. This report analyzes data from seven urban slum settlements to provide a basic picture of the conditions faced by the average household in these slums and to investigate some underlying relationships between the access to infrastructure with health and income of the households