Indian budget geared to rescue 800 slums in India's Silicon Valley
Mohan Subbarao
Jul. 6, 2009

India's Silicon Valley has around 800 slums.Approximately 600,000 people live in these slums. The city's total population is about eight million.

The slum population is projected to go up to one million by 2010, when the total population is expected to reach 10 million.

Indian budget has announced a provision of 25 kg of either wheat or rice per month at Rs.3 per kg to families living below the poverty line. This is part of India's new initiative Aam Adami.

Across the slums of Ambedkar Nagar and Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, several of its residents distributed sweets as Pranab Mukherjee ended his budget announcements.

Besides the food security measures, the finance minister also offered sops for the unorganized sector and housing for the poor.

Housing is a major problem for the urban poor as most of them stay in makeshift houses without any sanitation facilities. The increase in allocation for urban housing is a positive step.

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