Anshul HindalAIR 48 · CSE 2023 · 146 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Slums are the places developed in the vicinity of cities acting as a satellite of cities providing functional services to cities.
Body · points
- Variation in slums
- No of cities it is serving
- Population composition
- Major activity people engaged in
Universal patterns of slums
- lack of planning in their development -> No sanitation facility, water supply -> built without the proposal of government
- Oscar Lewis: A culture of poverty. perpetuates in all slums -> poverty breeds poverty
- generally dominated by the marginalisation section of population eg : Ghanshyam shah : Majority of population is SC. (4) High incidence of crime rate: william forte whyte study of street corner society (5) High prevelance of diseases Eg : Dharavi aids capital of the world (6) Meena chandralok : violence against women is prevelant.
way forward -> legal rights : odisha JAGA mission -> provision of sanition -> social acceptability -> skilling
Close · a way forward
Thus success story of odisha mission to provide them housing should be replecated.