Problems of Slums and Viable Strategies for Development

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The study universe and the people. 3. Socio-economic background of the slum dwellers. 4. Problems of living environment. 5. Social problems. 6. Development programmes and the slum dwellers. 7. Summary and conclusion. Bibliography.

"Slum is the out come of both push and pull factors of rural and urban centres slum is a well pervasive phenomena across the developing countries. Slums are natural outgrowth of unequal unjust social system but cannot be completely separated from urban way of life. Slum cater to the need of the urban and industrial centre for its full flowering living under abject poverty, unhygenic and in sanitary conditions, devoid of basic amenities of life. The real builders and sustainer of the city, without whom the city just can\'t thrive are buffeted with multifarious sub-human conditions, accept it as their way of life. Hence an humble attempt is made in this book in analyzing the minute details of the problems of the slum dwellers to help facilitate the policy makers to have appropriate strategies for amelioration of the same and hopes to maintain the slums as an integral part of urban life in its reality." (jacket)