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    Urbanization in Tamil Nadu

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    corporations‚ 104 municipalities‚ and 611 town panchayats‚ clearly illustrates that urbanization is not limited to anyone part of the State. However the urbanization is slow in our state due to few aspects as Population‚ Poverty‚ Water Supply‚ Growth of slum‚ Environment sanitation (Sewerage‚ Drainage‚ Solid waste disposal) Population: The 2.7 crore urban population of Tamil Nadu require a wide range of urban services including water supply‚ sewerage‚ solid waste management and streets as well as social

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    Millionaire (2008)”. Throughout the scene‚ the filmmaker uses the soundtrack titled “O Saya” by A. R. Rahman and M.I.A‚ which focuses heavily on orchestra and moves at a fast pace. The scene was started with a group of children‚ who lives in slum of Mumbai‚ playing baseball and screaming‚ anticipating the main character‚ Jamal‚ to catch the ball. Audience would have expected the continuation of the song to signal Jamal’s ability to catch the ball. However‚ the sound of the airplane gradually

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    Challenges Facing Mega-cities Access to Formal and Informal Employment There are high levels of unemployment and under-employment in all the mega-cities of the developing world. This is because there just aren’t enough jobs in urban markets to account for the vast number of people requiring them. It is estimated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that 20-25% of adults in urban areas of developing world cities are without regular employment. Jobs are desperately needed for people

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    Thulani Madondo

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    Guateng‚ South Africa. It is just one of the many slums in South Africa. The majority of residents in Kliptown are in extreme poverty. They face terrible living conditions. There housing consists of small shacks‚ if that‚ with no running water‚ electricity and more times than not‚ no food on the table. Living conditions like these are not uncommon in the slums of Kliptown. These conditions are often the result of the high unemployment rates in the slum. Along with high unemployment rates‚ there are

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    The internet of things Dave Evans‚ “Chief Futurist” at Cisco‚ is confident that the internet of things will change everything. In a report published under Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group‚ Evans explains that as more sensors are added to the Internet‚ almost anything can be connected to the Internet‚ revolutionizing the state of the Internet. All that it is asking for is giving up privacy and information‚ in exchange for unlimited knowledge and a creation of a “global brain.” What is

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    socio-economic conditions to which the person belongs. For example‚ a rich family will generate nearly four to five kg of mixed waste per day; a middle class family will generate between one to three kg of mixed waste per day and a poor family‚ in slums‚ will generate close to 500grams per day. Management of Waste The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is formally responsible for the management of waste in the city. The prevailing approach has been one of collection and disposal that

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    India of My Dreams

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    someone begging on the streets or when we see dirty‚ broken roads in shabby slums. One also feels jealous when we hear about the United States advancing in every field. By 2020‚ India will be on the same platform on which America is now. The first and foremost thing I see in India 2020 is 100 percent literacy rate. Every citizen in the country will be able to read‚ write and understand any one language including the farmers and slum-dwellers. India will not have any unemployment. The people will earn their

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    not been labeled as “poverty porn” due to the way it exploits a poverty stricken Mumbai society and promotes “slum tourism”. While some critics accuse the film of exploiting western perceptions of India‚ with its depictions of impoverished slums ruled by gangsters‚ as well as other unwholesome characters‚ others claim that the film neither shows negativity towards the slums nor shows the slum dwellers as people of sorrow. Rather‚ it shows a story of hope and survival. My own view is with the latter

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    wealthy. (Doc 5) Workers lived in dirty areas called slums and each slum was packed with many people. (Doc5) Sometimes there were six or more were living in a single small room‚ in a four room house. There was also no draining system‚ pot holes everywhere and strewn with animals. (Doc 5) Many people died in the slums because of bad ventilation and defective water supplies; people died from diseases in the slums. More people died in slums that the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation

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    been assumed.” (85) This passage gives the reader and the Husain family hope when they realize that the family isn’t as poor as they seem. “If the bulldozers came to flatten the slum‚ a decent hut was seen as a kind of insurance.”

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