In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning … deprivation, non-notified slums were much less likely to receive financial aid from government slum improvement schemes. Our …

This paper is an attempt to calculate Multidimensional Deprivation Index (MDI) for Women living in slums on the basis … Varanasi city. The paper reveals that the more than 50 percent women living in six surveyed slums are multidimensionally … available and it is much harder for women who are responsible for household, children and family members. Total ten indicators …