The realization after the national workshop on urban poverty

·         Urban Poverty and Urban population  are the two ever increasing phenomena

·         The existing policies and welfare programmes are going to wipe out the Poor and not the poverty.

·         Social and political exclusion : the slum inhabitants are not even counted in Census

·         Denial of basic rights and entitlements are the end result of social exclusion.

·         Security of tenure is not ensured

·         Migration from rural to urban area are mostly distressed migration and not opportunistic migration

·         Insensitive bureaucracy is one of the major reasons and factors that contribute

·         Loss of social identity is the major challenge faced by the urban poor.

·         Serious identity crisis and drifted economic life cycle makes them to be at the bottom of the heap of sufferings. They are not able to go up in the value chain

·         Urban poverty is not just a spillover of rural poverty. It is different & include psychological aspects like social isolation.

·         Urban poor live in lifelong disaster situations. There is an emergency need to  rethink on what made them to be in this conditions

·         The urban poor are the “CITY MAKERS”. The cities can’t make a single day without them, but their problems are never addressed and attended

                                   "Rights must not be rhetoric but should be implemented"