June 13, 2016
(photo: Vivek Trivedi)
The 2011 census counts 17, 73,040 homeless people in India - 52.9 % in urban areas and 47.1% in rural areas – on the basis of a definition that identifies a person or family as homeless if they do not live in a ‘census house,’ which refers to a ‘structure with roof.'
Based on this definition,