11. What is slum? This is the place : these narrow ways, diverging to the right and left, and reeking everywhere with dirt and filth. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, narrow ways, diverging to the right and left…. Where neither rays of light nor breath of air appears to come.
12. INTRODUCTION to Madurai Slums: Speaking about the development of Madurai, there are 240 slums in Madurai A group of trainees from Madurai Institute of Social Sciences has been to the particular slum named “Keel Madurai” nearer to the Kamarajar salai. It is one of the smallest slum in Madurai.
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14. The people were from two sub-divisions of scheduled caste.
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16. Totally there were 435 Males and 461 Females.
17. Even though they were separated by community, occupation, temple etc... , they were residingtogether in the slum.