Slum
and the city
Slums
have always been an eyesore for policymakers, governments and community.
However, amidst great progress and
advancements, the number of slums is on the rise.
·
Why is it so? Make a few suggestions to cut down on
their number.
Slums
have always had a place in the fringes of all organized and developed human
habitats. However, the world today happens to have greater number of such
invisible populace. This write-up will trace out the reasons for this, and
suggest a few ways to minimize their number.
Firstly, slums are actually the byproducts of urbanization and the resultant
marginalization of the less privileged. Today, urban-centric developments are happening
overnight and people, who are not able to shoulder the pressures of such a faster
move of the world, happen to have their own make-shift habitats in the fringes
of the cities. The second reason is what we call rural-urban movement of
people. For example, cities are generally called centers of opportunities and
everything new comes to the city first and people from far off places, naturally,
move to the cities. Many of them, eventually, turn to the outskirts of the
cities, necessitating further growth of slums.
This
sorry state of affairs could be addressed in several different ways. My primary
recommendation is to develop an all inclusive housing policy so that people of
all social status may be able to enjoy a roof over their heads for ever. Secondly,
it would be a better idea if development exercises be made evenly distributed
in accordance with the proportion of population, especially in semi-urban and
rural areas. And finally, the unholy nexus that exist between the asocial elements
in the slums and vested political interests should be busted in a war-foot
level.
In
short, so long as inequality persists among people, amidst advancements, there
will be slums though there may be many other reasons for the rising number of
slums. The recommendations made here may be able to contain this issue to an
extent, I believe.
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20.10.13
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