Dharavi in Mumbai is no longer Asia’s largest slum
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Dharavi, spread over 557 acres and housing nearly three lakh people, is no longer Asia’s largest slum . Mumbai has at least four larger contenders for the dubious distinction, some of them three times the size of Dharavi, Economic Times said.The erstwhile smaller slums in the suburbs have metamorphosed into contiguous, larger slums. The Kurla-Ghatkopar belt, the Mankhurd-Govandi belt, the Yogi and Yeoor hill slopes stretching from Bhandup to Mulund flanking the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on the east and Dindoshi on the western flank of the National Park have all eclipsed Dharavi. While the profile of the suburban slum sprawls is still to be established, the Mankhurd-Govandi slums that have sprung up at the base of the Deonar dumping ground are known as a “dumping ground” for the city’s poor. It has the lowest human development index in the city and is constantly in the news for malnutrition deaths, the report said.Data from the 2011 census shows there are 3.1 crore people in the island city and 9.3 crore in the suburbs, while nearly 78% of the city’s population lives in slums.
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