Question

what is mean by chawl

Answer 1

चॉल एक विशेषता लेआउट योजना के आवासीय अपार्टमेंट ब्लॉकों हैं। वे आमतौर पर 4 से 5 कहानियां ऊंचे हैं, जिनमें प्रत्येक मंजिल पर 8 से 16 घरों के बीच होता है। सदन को खोलियाँ कहा जाता है, जिसका शाब्दिक अर्थ है 'कमरे।'
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The chawl (from Marathi चाळ, chawls) is a name for a type of residential building found in India. Typically, housing units in chawls are availed of by relatively poor but gainfully employed working-class families. Chawls were constructed in abundance during the early 1900s, in the textile mill areas of Mumbai, and indeed this is how they originated, to provide cost-effective housing to mill-workers in Mumbai. They were later built by working-class emigrants working in other manufacturing industries also. This type of housing is no longer built, but remaining structures are still in demand because of their relatively affordable rents.

Answer 2

(in South Asia) a large building divided into many separate tenements, offering cheap, basic accommodation to labourers.