evidence: Subscribe to the Bureau newsletter, and hear when our next story breaks. [...] East of Delhi, beyond an abandoned coal power station, is an urban slum known as Burari. There, 1.5 million people live in just 11 square kilometres. The buildings there are unauthorised and, as such, the government does not provide basic services like electricity. [...] The same report said 300,000 children are forced to leave school every year because of TB. "Either they are too sick, the school authorities don’t want them, or the wage earning parent is sick and they have to take up a job," Dr Batra said.