Life of slums

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 LIFE OF SLUMS

                                                                    60% of Mumbai's population survives at shantytowns and slums. There is a need to educate the slum children, the general health conditions of the slum dwellers are very poor. They are affected by several diseases like- malaria, dengue, typhoid, tuberculosis, cholera, pneumonia, hepatitis and not proper food and water occur diarrhea. Living in a slum area is a very challenging life, there is a need for primary healthcare in urban areas. Most of the places where slum dwellers live are unhygienic to their lives. For the millions of youth living in slums, daily life can be a grin. Kids start their lives in poverty front lines, without access to education, infrastructure or sanitation. They are subject to hunger, diseases, and thirst prematurely into adult responsibilities. It is a common assumption that slum kids spend their time doing menial jobs and not going to schools, and depend largely on charity to be able to achieve a better life.

While India's economy continues to boom since the last so many decades and Swatch Bharat Abhiyan( Clean India Mission) entering into a second year, it's 360 million poorest citizens remain among those living in some of the most dilapidated conditions in the world. The slums have become the indispensable and dark side of our country, which we can't boast of. It's so ironical that Delhi's slum(all over India) are the abode lakhs of people whose work makes the lives of its better-off citizens easier and comfortable but they themselves are forced to live in worst of conditions. They don't even have access to a basic need like functional toilets, breeding indignity, and infections in their daily lives. 'Behind the Beautiful Forever's life in an urban slum can be full of squalor and deprivations. This time at Indian slum has not been obscured but make India lovely team needed to get the early aid content as to what the real world is like at that trouble sort of conditions and it chooses to visit Lalbagh slum area near Azadpur which is just a few kilometers away from prestigious North campus of Delhi University. Lalbagh is Delhi's largest slum having a population of more than 3 lakhs and distributed around the area of only one kilometer. 

Slums in India

                                                                  SLUMS IN INDIA
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The architecture of a slum in central America looks exactly the same as slums in Uganda, which looks exactly the same as a slum in India. The reality doesn't seem like what you think it looks like. KEEP INDIA  BEAUTIFUL (KiB) went deep within it had to know what hell is going, and they found Filthy stagnant food, clogged drains, thin lanes, cramped homes, heaps of waste and bad smell welcomed us. Each and every single time for them is taken with a lot of struggle for small and basic things. Some people call the slums poor, dirty and dangerous but they didn't see from the slum's eyes, but actually not they are because they didn't get the facility from the government they didn't have money and yes they don't have money at all, they are not in proper conditions. 
                                          TOP 10 CITIES IN INDIA OF SLUMS

1.             Mumbai - Dharavi Slum
2.             Delhi - Bhalswa Slum
3.             Banglore - Rajendra nagar Slum
4.             Hyderabad - Indirammma nagar Slum
5.             Kolkata - Basanti Slum
6.             Chennai - Nochikuppam Slum
7.             Nagpur - Saroj nagar Slum
8.             Lucknow - Mohibullahpur Slum
9.             Guwahati - Chandmari
10.             Jaipur - Kathputhli Slum

      1.  Mumbai Dharavi Slum
   


     2. Delhi Bhalswa Slum
   
     



     3. Banglore Rajendra Nagar Slum

   



      4. Hyderabad Indirammma Nagar Slum
     
               



     5. Kolkata Basanti Slum


              

     6. Chennai Nochikuppam Slum

          


    7. Nagpur Saroj Nagar Slum

        


    8. Lucknow  Mohibullahpur Slum

   


 
     9. Guwahati Chandmari

             
   
     10. Jaipur  Kathputhli Slum
   
         
         

People in slums

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             PEOPLE IN SLUMS                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                             Today over one billion people live in slum conditions. That's 1 in 8 people. Slum, considered informal settlements, are commonly found in cities. They are known for their inadequate housing along with overcrowding and poor living conditions. As people move into urban areas seeking better economic opportunities, governments struggle to support population growth. Many people who do not have access to alternate housing end up in slums and many others are born into the slums and struggle to escape. Slum residents do not own the right to the land they live in, but they settle and create homes nonetheless. The informal nature of slums often leaves residents on their own to access water and sanitation systems. Overcrowding and poor planning create narrow pathways and uneven earthen roads usually overrun by debris. Residents generally have limited access to building materials and turn to mud, wood and scrap metal to build and repair their homes.                                                                                      
                                                      The poor people's health is strongly associated with bad housing and overcrowding, and people in slum areas suffer inordinately from the killer diseases of the 20th century, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and waterborne disease. The existence of stored water further boosts the breeding of mosquitoes and diseases like malaria. For instance, alcoholism is a disease of the slums and it leads to moral and economic degradation. The slum area is common to be placed with a high incidence of crime. Not in every case, but in places of social dislocation with large numbers of unemployed young people, crime can be a serious problem for slum residents. Those kids who become literate, lack adequate educational levels to pursue greater studies the only means to break out of a vicious cycle of poverty. While Goa is at that the bottom in that the list, that the town of Mumbai has about 49 percent of its population living in slums. Slums cover only six percent of Mumbai's land and its expansion rate is higher than the general urban growth rate. Slums are a metropolitan phenomenon and growth in the city and they represent an imbalance between migration. These mill employees call from their villages in their own relatives and friends. Those people do not have a house they live in the streets, they do not have food to eat they beg and they eat. These people do not have shelter, food, clothes. They live in the streets, they only survive for food, Nobody sees there pain.

The slums of mumbai

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons. while slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, the supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement, and other basic services. Slums residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings which, because of poor quality construction or provision of basic maintenance, have deteriorated.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Slums are still predominantly found in urban regions of developing countries, India has also come from those developing countries. In India, there are many slums but the very well knowing city is Mumbai. Dharavi has more slums in Mumbai and the second largest in Asia. Mumbai has a total population of 12.44 million and 42% of people leave in slums. The metropolitan region has undergone an explosion in growth over the previous twenty years, a frequent occurrence with metropolitan areas in India. The rapid expansion has resulted in serious health conditions that have to be dealt with by the authorities and a huge percentage of residents live from the city slums.