Subject(s): City planning -- Marginality Social -- Urbanization -- Amenities and Facilities in Urban area -- Facets of Urban Environment -- Planning and Governance -- Urbanization and Urban Growth -- Marginalization and Exclusion in Urban spaces -- Spatial Patterns of slums and Locational Patterns -- Quality of Life in slums : Social Issues, Environmental Problems, Socio-Economical Characteristics, Urban Poverty, Slum Dwellers in HDMC -- Technology in slum Improvement : Growth of slums, GIS and Microlevel Planning, Detection of Slums using Hight Resolution satellite Data -- Women and Children in slum : Socio-Economical Conditions, Urbanization and Education -- Amelioration of slum Habitat :Population, Improvement Polices, Urban Poverty, Urban Governance, Functional Organisation , Development and Displacement of the Marginalised in India