900,000 Live on Streets in Calcutta and Bombay
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BOMBAY, India — Nearly 1 million people live on the sidewalks of India’s two biggest cities, and others lucky enough to find shelter have little access to drinking water or toilets, according to a survey released this week.
About 800,000 people live on the pavements of Calcutta and 100,000 sleep on the streets of Bombay, said the study by the All-India Slum Dwellers’ Welfare Assn. The survey was released two weeks before authorities in Bombay are scheduled to start demolishing illegal shantytowns and clearing people off the sidewalks. The slum-clearance order was approved in July by the Supreme Court.
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