Date: 28 Apr 2008 08:22:37 -0000 From: "jane gillian rodrigues" > Please remember that slums are encouraged in cities, not only for votebanks, but also, a form of land-grabbing, so that later on, the same people who encourged these slums, will put up Hotels. > Mario adds: > I think you are correct about the vote banks. > I don't know about putting up hotels, but in Mumbai, when public housing was built to relocate slum dwellers from Dharavi, many enterprising slum dwellers rented out their allocated apartments and went back to living in their shacks. > Migrants who come from rural villages are used to living in such meager conditions. >