Differing estimates of India s slum population - Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 19/02/2014
Statement of the Minister of Home Affairs in response to Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 371 for 19th February, 2014, asked by Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani regarding differing estimates of India's slum population. One of the questions asked was " whether Government is aware that the Census office and NSSO have come up with two completely different estimates of India's slum population as reported in a prominent English Newspaper on 5 January, 2014, if so, the facts thereof". To this question the minister replied that "the definition of Slum in the Census and the NSSO are different."