Over 8m slumdwellers in Mumbai by 2011, News - City - Mumbai Mirror: "The country's financial capital Mumbai will have around 8.68 million people living in slums by next year, notwithstanding the high growth economy and focus on ' inclusiveness'.
Mumbai is followed by Delhi with 3.16 million people estimated to be living in slums by 2011, compared to 2.3 million in 2001, according to a new methodology adopted by an expert panel appointed by the housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry. Though Mumbai's slum population was 6.5 million in the 2001 census, the panel's methodology estimated it at 6.8 million."
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