Socio-Economic Ambience of Slum Dwellers, Kamlapur Area of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Author: 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

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International Journal of Trade & Commerce (Vol: 10 Issue:1)