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Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health

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Marginalization of people in the process of globalization led to increase social vulnerability. This paper addresses peripheralization of social vulnerability in national capital territory. It is based on the analyses of mission convergence data of 1.1 million households across 274 municipal wards of Delhi. In the past, unauthorized colonies have been regularized in Delhi. The total number of Jhughi Jhopri (JJ) clusters in 2011 were 687 and number of Jhuggies were 0.48 million (Delhi Shelter Board, JJ Cluster list, Govt of Delhi, 2011). (Delhi development report (DDR), 2013), reported reduction in poverty to single-digit figures (9.9 %) in 2011–12, from approximately 13 % in 2004–05. Notwithstanding the wide concern over the present official poverty line, which is indeed an under-estimate of the state of vulnerability. To claim that there has certainly been a decline in absolute poverty levels in Delhi, can be critically looked at from the rest of the papers in this volume, which shows growing marginalization and disparities.

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Kumari, S., Punia, M. (2017). Social Vulnerability Mapping for Delhi. In: Acharya, S., Sen, S., Punia, M., Reddy, S. (eds) Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3583-5_14

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