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In Mumbai there are big gap between rich and poor people. The contrasts in living standards are of a magnitude not seen anywhere else in the country. Two distinct cities exist within one. (Sandeep Ashar) The territory of Mumbai divided in to 2. One of them is city, where live people who have enough money. Second Dharavi is a slum area in Mumbai, where live over 1000000 people. The poor people have different physical, social factors with rich. According to All-India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG) in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mumbai, there are significant differences between people who live in slums and people living in the center. They have different conditionals of life. The main factors of the differences between them are education, medical services, and family status. Every day, number of people in Mumbai is growing, and in the slums every day people are becoming more and more. The fertility rate in the non-slum is 1. 4 and at the same time in the slums it up by 0.5 and equal 1.9. In the slums of almost every fourth woman subjected to violence, when at the same time in the no- slums only. In non-slum about 277 people live in the same area. Only 14% of toilets have access to water, so the slum residents to carry a bucket of water. And to clean water have access only one of the six. Migration in Mumbai also are reflect the problems associated with increasing inequalities (S. Parasuraman ) Prof. S. Parasuraman is director of TISS. He was United Nations Fellow on Population and Development, Institute of Social Studies. He is study the sphere of inequality in Mumbai. So with increasing migrants the population grows and social inequality is also rises.( “Uncovering the Myth of Urban Development”) So because of big amount of migrants the gap between people is increase. At the same time inequality is lead to criminal, problem with health and others. As a
