Socio-Economic Ambience of Slum Dwellers, Kamlapur Area of Dhaka, BangladeshAuthor: Ahmad, Shamim
Abstract:
The study has been conducted to analyze the socio-economic condition of
slum dwellers living around the Kamlapur area, Dhaka. It focuses on the
central issue of whether the slum dwellers of Dhaka city receive their basic
needs & constitutional rights or not. The study is based on both
qualitative & quantitative. Under the quantitative approach, the sample
size of primary data is 50 and collected from the slum dwellers living in
the Kamlapur slum area. On the contrary, the secondary data have been
gathered from the various journals, articles, books, thesis papers &
newspapers published at different times. The study emphasizes the issues
that the slum dwellers are deprived of, especially the essential
requirements, the basic needs they are supposed to get constitutionally as
citizens of Bangladesh. In different research studies, it is found that most
of them cannot afford their subsistence level of livelihood instead suffer
from deprivations & miseries. Sanitation becomes out of their reach. An
immediate effect is often visible due to the shortage of urban services & the
poor socio-economic status. They cannot afford safe water & water supply.
As a result, they suffer from many kinds of health issues, especially
diarrhea, dysentery,& many other water bear diseases as their daily
companies. The study also finds several emerging & challenging aspects
that prevent the slum dwellers from maintaining a standard of living
rather than living in unclean surroundings with an acute want of healthy
food, nutrition, treatment, safety, & necessary governmental assistance.
With a view of solving these problems the slum dwellers are experiencing,
the study suggests a few of the effective measures that can be implemented
to minimize the issues and raise the living ambience of the slum dwellers
through the active implication of the policies.
Keywords:Socio-economic, Slum, Livelihood, Basic Needs, Framework
DOI:
International Journal of Trade & Commerce (Vol: 10 Issue:1)
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