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International Journal of Social Sciences
Year : 2012, Volume : 1, Issue : 2
First page : ( 113) Last page : ( 124)
Print ISSN : 2249-6637. Online ISSN : 2321-5771.

‘Social Cost and Individual Benefit’: A Study on the political Economy of Water Crisis of Illegal Slum Dwellers in Mumbai and Community Members in Rural Kerala

Irshad S. Mohammed

Assistant Professor, Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, Maharashtra. Email: mohammed.irshad@tiss.edu

Online published on 16 October, 2013.

Abstract

The right to water has been accepted as a human right, however, the practice and context of right is often subjected to bureaucratic boundaries. The politically incorrect mode of operation in one region of the country becomes politically correct in another region. In both the cases, the right to water is being subjected to market interventions. The state and community are involving a process which led the drinking water privatisation.

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Keywords

Kerala, Illegal Slumbs, Mumbai, Community, Private Water Suppliers, Cost of Drinking Water.

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