GS1 · 15 marks · 250 words

Slums are not 'problems' that have to be 'solved' - but are indeed a result of lopsided and vested urban policies covering infrastructure provision and socio-economic issues. Analyse.

Answered by 6 toppers · CSE 2022–2025

Syllabus: Role of Women and Women's Organization, Population and Associated Issues, Poverty and Developmental issues, Urbanization, their problems and their remedies

How toppers approached it

From all 6 answers · about 240 words · 83% drew a diagram.

Opening

  • A figure83%
  • A restatement17%

Body

  • Points and prose67%
  • Points33%

Close

  • A way forward100%

The toppers’ answers

RuhaniAIR 5 · CSE 2023 · 100 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a restatement

Slums are a result of lopsided and vested urban policies related to infrastructure.

Body · points and prose

Diagram
Lack of housing results in slums | v [ROLE OF INFRASTRUCTURE POLICIES] / | | \ / | | \ Land Lack of Lack of Lack of water, acquisition space road electricity infra- problems. for slums infra- structure structure for slums. connecting villages to cities, facilitating daily travel for laborers.
Diagram
Lack of education facilities to slum dwellers ^ | [SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES] / | \ / | \ lack of Food Lack of health housing insecurity facilities & Lack of credit due to absence of land ownership

SOLVING THE SLUM PROBLEM

→ Provide shelter to slum dwellers and housing to them under PM-AWAAS Yojana.

→ Strengthen road and transport infrastructure connecting the village to the city so that laborers do not feel the need to settle in the city and are able to travel daily to their villages.

→ Providing Urban amenities to the Rural Areas (PURA) is another way to prevent migration and slum problem in cities.

→ Creating more rural jobs is the way forward to solving the slum problem in cities.

Close · a way forward

None written.

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