MUMBAI, India (AP) — A new census report says one in six people in Indian cities live in some 100,000 sprawling slums with conditions “unfit for human habitation.” The statistics are India’s first complete count of its vast slum population.
The census identified 13.8 million households — about 64 million people — located in slums in urban areas around the country.
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