In India,
the rural to urban migration rate is very high. This implies that while more
and more people are migrating from rural areas to towns and cities, neither are
urban areas expanding enough, nor are the rural areas developing.
The main
reason for this is that agriculture based villages provide only seasonal
employment, and there is lack of other employment opportunities, condemning
people to a state of perpetual poverty.
Thus,
cities are getting overburdened and municipalities are not being able to
provide enough accommodation. Therefore, the migrants are forced to settle in
small colonies of make-shift homes, leading to spread of slums such as J.J.
Colonies of Delhi and Dharawi of Mumbai.