CONTENTS List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction -D.Venkateswarlu, M.Hanumantha Rao & S.Bhaskar Globalization and Technology and the State: Reconfiguring of Urban Space in India (Key Note Address) -E.Hari Babu PART-I Urban Processes 1. Migrants and their Characteristics: A Study in Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) -D.Venkateswarlu and G.Choodamani 2. Revitalizing Local Democratic Governance: A Study of Urban Administration in Tirupati -M.A.Hussain PART-II Gender Problems in Urban Society 3.Urbanization Policy: An Evaluation from a Gender Perspective -D.B.Krishna Kumari 4.Women and Housing: Impact of Urbanization, Constraints and Suggestions -G.Sandhya Rani and B.Suguna 5.Women Workers in Davanagere Textile Mills: Some Critical Challenges to Development -H.S.Krupalini 6. Urban Women Councillors and Decision-making 51 Process: A Study of Women Members of Urban Local Bodies, Bellary District -Ch. Uma Mohan and H.B.Jalajakshi 7. Place of Birth: Why Urban Women Still 58 Prefer Home Deliveries? -M.S.R. Murthy 8. Urbanization and Health Status of Educated 72 Urban Working Women -Radha Murugesan and V.Jaisee Geetha 9. Traffic Congestion and Women's Problems: 78 A Case Study of Tirupati Town -D. Padmavathi 10. Gender Violence: Indian Scenario 85 -P.Vasantha Kumari and K. Sudha Rani 11. Urbanization: Gender-based Violence in 94 Andhra Pradesh -B.Ratna Kumari 12. Domestic Violence: A Silent Crime Against Women 112 and the Role of Family Counselling Centres -B.Suguna and G.Sandhya Rani PART-III Urban Problems in India (a) General Problems 13. Urban Problems in Pune and Hyderabad: Solution 121 and Strategies for Action to eradicate them -A.Ramanamma, Jitendra Kumar Gond and Debjani Pal Chowdhuri 14. Urban Environmental Pollution 137 -R.Shankar and M.Thamilarasan 15. Environmental Pollution: Threat to Life 153 -I.Sobha and M.S.N.Reddy 16. Urban Transport and Environmental Pollution 160 in India: Reasons and Mitigation Strategies -N.Ramulu, T.Vijaya Kumar and D.Sammaiah 17. Traffic Problems in Cities: A Study of 176 Hyderabad City -M.V.Lakshmi Devi 18. Health Awareness in Urban Conglomerates: 183 A Blue-print for Strategies -Y.Bhaskaracharyulu 19. Health Problems in the Backward Region of 190 Telangana: A Study -T.Ramesh (b) Slums 20. A Study of Women's Position in the 199 Slums of Tirupati -K.Surekha Rao and G. Narmada 21. Primary Schooling Among the Urban Poor: 207 Perspectives from a Study of a Slum in Metropolitan Delhi -S.Sreenivasa Rao 22. Role of Literacy in Creating Awareness 222 Among Slum-dwellers -D. Uma Devi and P.Adinarayana Reddy 23. Slum-related Problems and Programmes in India 227 -I.Subramanyam and B. V.Muralidhar 24. Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Slum 237 Dwellers in Chennai City: Suggested Strategies and Approaches -A.Karuppaiah and K.N.Vijayanthi 25. Health in Slums: A Case Study of Indira Nagar 257 Slum in Tirupati Town -K.Sreenivasa Rao and A.Srinivasu (c) Urban Anomie 26. A Profile of Crime and Violence in Indian 273 Mega Cities -K.Radhakrishna Murthy and D.Raja Kumar 27. Suicides in Rayalaseema: A Sociological Analysis 293 -Amarnath R. Das andR.V.K. Naidu 28. Human Rights Violation Among Sex Workers 308 in Tirupati: A Case Study Analysis -K.Sreenivasa Rao and K.Subramanyam 29. Family Disorganization and Dissolution 324 (Some Case Studies from Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh) -K.Rani (d) Street Children and Child Workers 30. Street Children: Easy to get out but Hard to get in 333 -G.Stanley Jayakumar, V.Reddeppa Naidu, S.Bhaskar and G.Janakiram 31. Street Children: Their Attitudes and Habits 337 -Y.Antony Raj 32. Street Children: A Struggle for Survival 355 -I.V.Lalitha Kumari 33. Child Workers in Urban Centres-A Study 363 -A. V.Narasimha Raju PART-IV Urban Development 34. Lagging in Urban Development: A Historical 373 Perspective of Thanjavur, An Ancient Town in Tamil Nadu -R.Elango and S.Ramachandran 35. Community Best Practices in Rain Water 379 Harvesting for Drinking Water: A Field Inquiry in Aizwal City of Mizoram -P.Sivaram 36. Prison Work Programmes and Rehabilitation Plans 391 and Programmes of Convicts: A Contradiction -Madhu Sudan Sethi and S.Mohanty 37. Urbanization and Urban Sociology in India 397 (Valedictory Address) -Vighnesh N.Bhat