Question

Several poor people in the city work as domestic servants as well as
work for the Corporation, keeping the city clean. Yet the slums in
which they live are quite filthy. This is because these slums seldom
have any water and sanitation facilities. The reason often given by
the Municipal Corporation is that the land in which the poor have
set up their homes does not belong to them and that slum-dwellers
do not pay taxes. However people living in middle class
neighbourhoods pay very little in taxes compared to the amount of
money the corporation spends on them in setting up parks, street
lighting facilities, regular garbage collection etc. Also as you read in
this chapter, the property taxes collected by the Municipality makes
up only 25-30 per cent of its money. Why do you think it is
important that the Corporation should spend more money on slum
localities? Why is it important that the Municipal Corporation
provide the poor in the city with the same facilities that the rich get?

Answer 1

Answer:

It is important that the Corporation should spend more money on slum localities because:

The government should spend money on slum areas as they are also a part of society. If the Corporation do not provide them equal facilities then it is a discrimination on the basis of economic condition.

The people living there contribute a lot for the society and also a major work population like domestic servants, workers and cleaners.