Ques: Urban Slums are menace. Elucidate with Indian cities as examples.

Conclusions: On the brink of unprecedented opportunities in urban growth, India can no longer afford to ignore this dark underbelly of our cities. Fortunately, solutions are not always far. Housing a hard-working and enterprising population, the slums, with active encouragement have the potential of turning themselves around from ghettos of menace into islands of opportunity. [6/10]

Quest: Critically examine the problems and prospects of Tribal areas in India. In effect, while geographic and historical factors have bequeathed the tribal areas with challenges, it should no longer hold them back. Rich in resources and powered by traditional knowledge of its people the tribal areas in India could, with reasonable autonomy over their materials and men, turn themselves around into dynamos of national growth.

As prospect of unprecedented growth in the urban population brightens, the threat of more numerous and bleaker slums looms large over Indian cities. The first step towards tackling and finally

eliminating the manace As