Informal Settlements of Slums in the Urban Vicinity of Guwahati City of Assam: The Case of a Harijan Colony under Guwahati Municipal Corporation - A Case Study

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2018 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 5 Issue 4

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : Tabrez Uz Zaman and Professor Sujit Kumar Dutta

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V5I4P102

How to Cite?

Tabrez Uz Zaman and Professor Sujit Kumar Dutta, "Informal Settlements of Slums in the Urban Vicinity of Guwahati City of Assam: The Case of a Harijan Colony under Guwahati Municipal Corporation - A Case Study," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 5,  no. 4, pp. 9-10, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V5I4P102

Abstract:

The Guwahati city is the Gateway of the Northeast region of India and currently known as the smart city with a rapidly growing population due to the urbanization and unabated rural-urban migration. This has pushed large form of poverty induced migration from stagnated rural areas to the cities and towns. They get settled in the slum pockets of the cities and towns, but they need some minimum basic services like water supply, scientific drains, electricity, housing, hygienic sanitation, etc. to facilitate improvement in the environmental situation of the town/city. There is often a close relationship between the health status and the living conditions of the slum dwellers. This case study tries to find out the conditions of these informal settlements or slums and how it has affected their lives and families.

Keywords:

Slums, informal settlements, migration, health status.

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