When Ajay Maken, Union Minister for Housing and Poverty Alleviation, addressed a conference in Mumbai recently on governance of India’s mega cities, one of his key areas of concern was growing urbanisation and the need for more affordable housing. Though he was speaking in the context of cities like Mumbai and Delhi, against the backdrop of a Centre for Policy Research draft report, what he said could apply to Pune as well, both now, and even more so, in the future . “About 50 per cent of population in Mumbai stays in slums,” he said at the meet organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). “In cities like Delhi also
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