For the homeless the situation seems always unchanged. According to government surveys, about 65 million Indians, roughly a quarter of the urban population live in slums. The number of slum dwellers or homeless people are increasing day by day. Those who can not afford to build houses or don't have a piece of land, depend on slums as a place for dwelling. These areas where the slum dwellers occupy usually belongs to government or authorities. The time comes when these areas are to be utilized for some developmental purposes and these people are then forced to flee from this place. Such incidents are very common in every state, especially in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Culcutta, were majority of slum population live. The better portion of slum people in India are in Mumbai, where most poor people reaches in search of a livelihood.
Very recently, in Mumbai there was one such incident of demolition occured. The protesters were beaten by the cops in Mumbai (See news by The Morung Express). The protesters are most commonly the dwellers who have been living in this place for years. For them their years of hard work and belongings are destroyed in just a wink of the eye. Nothing will be done to reahabiliate these people from homelessness. Although promises on building new houses or apartments for these homeless are given, it was always been limited as just promises. With the success of Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, the world attention has turned towards India. As the general elections fast approach,political leaders are sure expect on these slum areas with their unkept promises and offers.
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