Question

Step V: Find out government’s efforts for providing education to the dwellers

Answer 1

Slums are informal settlement characterized by substandard housing, overcrowding and squalor. Nearly 1 billion people live in the slums worldwide and this is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030. Slums lack basic sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement, schools, hospitals and other basic services. Slums lead to epidemics, are vulnerable to natural and unnatural hazards, unemployment, rampant child labor, increase in crime rates and violence, informal economy etc. Slum-dwellers stay in shanty structures in unhygienic environment, not by choice but by compelling circumstances as they were thrown out of the formal housing sector, the latter being expensive and much beyond their income levels. It is imperative to enhance their standard of living and for which an authorized dwelling unit is a first step in the right direction. This, in turn, will bring about a marked improvement in their hygiene and health as well as raise the level of public hygiene which has fallen to very low ebb..