paragraph on pavement
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The pavement dwellers are considered to be the poorest of the poor[1]. They live in kucha house made of plastic, polythene, cardboard, straws, bamboos etc. They try to settle themselves near the place they work. ... There has been an increase in the population of pavement dwellers in all over in India.
Pavement :
Pavement dwellers include people living on the pavement, under the bridge, flyover, bus stop, near the railway station, in parks or under the open sky in any public place in the metros and urban areas where public facilities like public toilet are provided. Some of these people migrate from small villages looking for employment opportunities as there are not enough employment opportunities in their village or small towns.There are 2 main reasons for migrating. Firstly, economic reason.
People are homeless due to financial problem, natural calamities, lack of employment opportunities. Secondly, Social reason. The pavement dwellers are considered to be the poorest of the poor. They live in kucha house made of plastic, polythene, cardboard, straws, bamboos etc. They try to settle themselves near the place they work.
They are deprived of basic amenities (food, potable water, toilets, clothes) and have a low standard of living. As they live on footpaths, public nuisance is created. Blocking of footpaths and creating unhygienic conditions add on to public nuisance. India is home to more than 20 million pavement dwellers.
Major chunks live in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi.There has been an increase in the population of pavement dwellers in all over in India.The term came into being as a population category in anthropological studies on famine, rural-urban migration, refugee problem and poverty.
In these works, the pavement dweller represented the migrants.Pavement dwellers are the most deprived and isolated among the urban poor and have the least organisational and political skills.These group of people consist of employed, unemployed and self-employed people. Some work for construction companies or for The State for constructing of roads, highways etc.
Self-employed workers start their own tea stalls and small street food stall. Some usesentertainment to earn livelihood. Their major business is street vending, hawking, petty shop keeping and selling handicrafts.Some of them are differently abled or are too sick to work.The increase of homeless people in urban areas is as “an inevitable outcome of the urbanisation process“.Urbanization process is the shift from rural areas to cities for better economic factorand thus, when there is no opportunity of earning livelihood in rural area, people migrate to urban areas.