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A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing and squalor.While slums differ in size and other characteristics from country to country, most lack 6reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings that because of poor-quality construction or provision of services have deteriorated into slums.
Slums were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States and Europe.More recently slums have been predominantly found in urban regions of developing and undeveloped parts of the world, but are also found in developed economies.
According to UN-Habitat, around 33% of the urban population in the developing world in 2012, or about 863 million people, lived in slums.The proportion of urban population living in slums was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa (61.7%), followed by South Asia (35%), Southeast Asia (31%), East Asia (28.2%), West Asia (24.6%), Oceania (24.1%), Latin America and the Caribbean (23.5%), and North Africa (13.3%). Among individual countries, the proportion of urban residents living in slum areas in 2009 was highest in the Central African Republic (95.9%). Between 1990 and 2010 the percentage of people living in slums dropped, even as the total urban population increased.The world's largest slum city is in Mexico City.
Slums form and grow in many different parts of the world for many different reasons. Some causes include rapid rural-to-urban migration, economic stagnation and depression, high unemployment, poverty, informal economy, poor planning, politics, natural disasters and social conflicts.Strategies tried to reduce and transform slums in different countries, with varying degrees of success, include a combination of slum removal, slum relocation, slum upgrading, urban planning with city wide infrastructure development, and public housing.
Slums in major cities
Dhaka, Bangladesh
São Paulo, Brazil
Cairo, Egypt
Nairobi, Kenya
Mexico City, Mexico
Jakarta, Indonesia
Cape Town, South Africa
Mumbai, India
Caracas, Venezuela
SOME OF MAJOR SLUMS IN INDIA:-
1 Dharavi Slum Mumbai: Mumbai
“The Dream city” hold the biggest slum area in India known as Dharavi. Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, is spread over an area of 1.75 km along the Mahim river in central Mumbai. Dharavi is just one of many slum areas in city of Mumbai.
About 24 percent of Delhi's population is said to live in slums. The Bhalswa slum dwellers come from various parts of Delhi. It has a population of about twenty two thousand. The slum also has one of the largest child labors.
Chennai, “The city of flyovers” has Nochikuppam slum that has about 1,300 huts. It is home to around five thousand people who live below poverty line. The people here struggle to even have two meals a day.
Bangalore alone holds 570 slums from a total of around 2000 slums in the State. It is estimated that about 20 percent of Bangalore population reside in slums. The families living in the slums refuse to move into the temporary shelters as they find it risky to live under a flyover.
The city of joy, Kolkata has a slum area known as Basanti slum. It is one of the major slum areas. One third of Kolkata’s population lives these slums.
Hyderabad, the City of Nizam has about thousands of lakhs of people living in slums. There is very little land available to accommodate all the people in these slums.
Lucknow, the City of Nawabs has a population that includes large numbers of poor people, many of who live in slums. Many people migrate from the nearest district for daily wages. People, hence, illegally occupy land and create their own shelters, residing in the awful living conditions. The population in these areas increases at a faster rate than compared to the urban population as a whole.
Nagpur, the Orange city has many slums areas and Sarojnagar is one among those many. Approximately 40 percent of the population in Nagpur is said to live in slums. These slums are home to about a lakh people and cover about 1,600 hectares of prime land. It makes for one of the largest slum areas in Maharashtra.
Ahmadabad is home to a large population of poor people. The river side slums in Ahmadabad are about 40 years old.
Bhopal, the City of Lakes has many slum areas and Satnami Nagar is one of the oldest slums in Bhopal. These slums in Bhopal are the means of shelter to many.
A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing and squalor.While slums differ in size and other characteristics from country to country, most lack 6reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings that because of poor-quality construction or provision of services have deteriorated into slums.
Slums were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States and Europe.More recently slums have been predominantly found in urban regions of developing and undeveloped parts of the world, but are also found in developed economies.
According to UN-Habitat, around 33% of the urban population in the developing world in 2012, or about 863 million people, lived in slums.The proportion of urban population living in slums was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa (61.7%), followed by South Asia (35%), Southeast Asia (31%), East Asia (28.2%), West Asia (24.6%), Oceania (24.1%), Latin America and the Caribbean (23.5%), and North Africa (13.3%). Among individual countries, the proportion of urban residents living in slum areas in 2009 was highest in the Central African Republic (95.9%). Between 1990 and 2010 the percentage of people living in slums dropped, even as the total urban population increased.The world's largest slum city is in Mexico City.
Slums form and grow in many different parts of the world for many different reasons. Some causes include rapid rural-to-urban migration, economic stagnation and depression, high unemployment, poverty, informal economy, poor planning, politics, natural disasters and social conflicts.Strategies tried to reduce and transform slums in different countries, with varying degrees of success, include a combination of slum removal, slum relocation, slum upgrading, urban planning with city wide infrastructure development, and public housing.
Slums in major cities
Dhaka, Bangladesh
São Paulo, Brazil
Cairo, Egypt
Nairobi, Kenya
Mexico City, Mexico
Jakarta, Indonesia
Cape Town, South Africa
Mumbai, India
Caracas, Venezuela
SOME OF MAJOR SLUMS IN INDIA:-
1 Dharavi Slum Mumbai: Mumbai
“The Dream city” hold the biggest slum area in India known as Dharavi. Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, is spread over an area of 1.75 km along the Mahim river in central Mumbai. Dharavi is just one of many slum areas in city of Mumbai.
2. Bhalswa Slum, Delhi:
About 24 percent of Delhi's population is said to live in slums. The Bhalswa slum dwellers come from various parts of Delhi. It has a population of about twenty two thousand. The slum also has one of the largest child labors.
3. Nochikuppam Slum, Chennai:
Chennai, “The city of flyovers” has Nochikuppam slum that has about 1,300 huts. It is home to around five thousand people who live below poverty line. The people here struggle to even have two meals a day.
4. Rajendra Nagar Slum, Bangalore:
Bangalore alone holds 570 slums from a total of around 2000 slums in the State. It is estimated that about 20 percent of Bangalore population reside in slums. The families living in the slums refuse to move into the temporary shelters as they find it risky to live under a flyover.
5. Basanti Slum, Kolkata:
The city of joy, Kolkata has a slum area known as Basanti slum. It is one of the major slum areas. One third of Kolkata’s population lives these slums.
6. Indiramma Nagar, Hyderabad:
Hyderabad, the City of Nizam has about thousands of lakhs of people living in slums. There is very little land available to accommodate all the people in these slums.
7. Mehbullahpur Slum Lucknow:
Lucknow, the City of Nawabs has a population that includes large numbers of poor people, many of who live in slums. Many people migrate from the nearest district for daily wages. People, hence, illegally occupy land and create their own shelters, residing in the awful living conditions. The population in these areas increases at a faster rate than compared to the urban population as a whole.
8. Saroj Nagar Slum, Nagpur:
Nagpur, the Orange city has many slums areas and Sarojnagar is one among those many. Approximately 40 percent of the population in Nagpur is said to live in slums. These slums are home to about a lakh people and cover about 1,600 hectares of prime land. It makes for one of the largest slum areas in Maharashtra.
9. Parivartan Slum, Ahmadabad:
Ahmadabad is home to a large population of poor people. The river side slums in Ahmadabad are about 40 years old.
10. Satnami Nagar Slum, Bhopal:
Bhopal, the City of Lakes has many slum areas and Satnami Nagar is one of the oldest slums in Bhopal. These slums in Bhopal are the means of shelter to many.
THESE ARE THE MAJOR SLUMS IN INDIA..
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