Urban Poverty and Vulnerabilities in South West National Capital Region: Exploring the Spatial Dimension

Abstract

Ending poverty, bridging the development gap and to envisage a policy that is economically viable socially just and environmentally sustainable is the avowed objectives of our social planners, development strategist and policy makers. This paper is a modest attempt to look into the spatial dimension of criteria adopted by Prof. Hasim committee on urban poverty, to reflect upon the newly devised and adopted criteria of urban poverty in socio economic caste census 2011 in a spatial dimension.