Concrete jungles; Cities  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 404 no. 8804 (Sep. 2012), page SS14-SS16.
Topik: Urban Development; Towns; Cities; Politics; Social Conditions & Trends

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Savda Ghevra is a township of narrow, poorly built brick houses with beaten tin doors, west of Delhi. Flies swirl over open sewers. In the absence of piped water, 55 tankers bring in supplies daily. Only a minority of homes, "pukka" ones, have toilets. A few trees have been planted, but overall the feel is little better than that of a shanty town. In theory, Savda Ghevra represents progress--of a minimal, unsatisfactory sort. The area was set aside for some of the estimated 500,000 slum-dwellers displaced when Delhi hosted the 2010 Commonwealth games: fish-sellers from beside the stinking Yamuna river, tailors, rickshaw-wallahs and hawkers who saw their shacks flattened. Some were taken to Savda Ghevra, given plots and told to build. Now they have homes and electricity, but many families have been split: the father sleeping somewhere back in Delhi, the rest of the family in the new home. Some have sold their plots, illegally, to dodgy property traders. A corner house is for sale at a scarcely believable 2.7m rupees. India's cities, by and large, are charmless and badly put together. That is one reason why the country remains mostly rural.

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