Swati Mohanty
The rapid pace of urbanization during the last few decades has resulted in explosive growth of cities throughout the world. With urbanization comes the challenge of providing jobs, shelter, clean environment, portable water – a challenge which is not being met as in evident in most of the cities in the developing countries where almost 30 to 40 per cent of the population lives below poverty line and mostly reside in the slum. UN studies now project that mega ...