and affording the very best incentive to further slum clearance and improvement on their boundaries. It took the greater part of twenty years to persuade reactionaries, mossbacks, rural-minded ...

And only 75.5 per cent of the households in rural areas were using improved sanitation facilities, against 93.5 per cent in the urban. Yet against these statistics, sprawls of slum areas in the ...

The rise of slums in Karachi is largely driven by a severe ... Another key factor is the migration of people from rural areas to urban centres like Karachi. Many individuals and families move ...

In rural areas, due to the availability of space ... "For this, we could plan it (the slum) as is and only demolish 10 per cent of existing buildings for the construction of access roads and ...