Table of Contents

Introduction / Sabir Ali Problems of the Urban Poor 1. Problems of the Urban Poor / Sabir Ali 2. Forced Evictions of the Urban Poor / Miloon Kothari 3. Extent of Urban Poverty in India / Satpal Singh Infrastructure and Basic Services 4. A Comprehensive Approach for Managing Services for the Urban Poor / Vivek N. Patkar 5. The Slums of Panchkula / Bindu Duggal 6. Access to Urban Basic Services : The Delhi Scenario / Shashi P. Sanjay and Ram Kishan 7. Marginalisation, Segregation and Persistence : An Analysis of the Spatial Dimensions of Infrastructure Access by the Urban Poor / N. Sridharan 8. Community-Based Information System : A Tool for Efficient and Bottom-up local Governance / Renu Khosla 9. Meeting Health Needs of the Urban Poor : The Urban Health Challenge in Madhya Pradesh / Alok Ranjan Chaurasia Women, Homeless and Street Children 10. Women and Children as Marginalised Section amongst the Urban Poor / Archana Sinha 11. Slum Women and Contraception : A Case Study in Amritsar City / Jasmeet Sandhu and Baljeet Soni 12. Capital Punishment : Recipe for the Homeless in Delhi / Indu Prakash Singh 13. Stories of Street Children : Findings from a Field Study / Kathakali Mitra and Sibnath Deb Environment, Informal Sector, Housing Finance and Policies for Rehabilitation 14. Questioning Environmental Improvement of Urban Slums / Neelima Risbud 15. Managing Urban Poverty through Informal Sector Expansion : A case for Small and Micro Enterprises in Delhi / Shipra Maitra 16. Housing Finance and the Urban Poor / V. K. Dhar 17. Development Policies for Rehabilitation in Delhi : A Review / Sabir Ali Suggestions for Poverty Alleviation 18. Suggestions for Policy Formulation / Amitabh Kundu, Alison Barrett, Prodipto Roy, T. M. Vinod Kumar and Indu Prakash Singh Concepts and a Select Bibliography 19. Concepts and Definitions in Urban Planning and Development : A Select Terminology / Sabir Ali and R. S. Somi 20. A Select Bibliography / R. S. Somi and Gurmeet Kaur

About the Author

Alison Barrett is Working as South Asia Regional Adviser to the World Bank, New Delhi. V. K. Dhar has been involved in various development-oriented urban research projects. Vivek N. Patkar is working as a regular faculty in the Indian Business School, Mumbai of the ICFAI University. Alok Ranjan Chaurasia is the Honorary Director of `Shyam' Institute, a no-profit voluntary organisation in Madhya Pradesh, Which is actively involved in population and health-related research. Renu Khosla has over 25 years of experience in the development sector. She is currently Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence. Sabir Ali is Senior Fellow, Council for Social Development, New Delhi.