Despite Rs 175 crore spent in four years, just 58 slums cleared across state; 45 lakh people living in ramshackle housing

Even as Bengaluru positions itself as India’s tech capital, it continues to grapple with one of the state’s oldest urban failures; its sprawling slums. According to official records, the city still has 435 slum pockets, housing thousands of families deprived of basic amenities. Across Karnataka, the state government’s five-decade-old promise of a slum-free Karnataka remains far from fulfilled, despite multiple schemes and hundreds of crores spent under the Karnataka Slum Development Board .

The Karnataka Slum Areas (Development and Clearance) Act came into effect on November 1, 1974, and the Karnataka Slum Clearance Board was formed in July 1975 to rehabilitate resi

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