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SUBSISTENCE LIVELIHOOD AND ERRATIC SUBSTANTIALLY CRAMPED RESIDENTIAL CONDITIONS PREVAILS ALONG THE SLUMS OF KHARAGPUR CITY, WEST BENGAL

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Madhumita Ghosh,Dr. A. Rajshekhar
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si5.294

Abstract

An Urbanized or Sub-Urbanized area which is agglomerated with improper dwellings, meagre infrastructure where low level of income, unemployment, poverty ridden, haphazard infrastructure prevails along the slums. The overall income goes to feed and support the household and not for any sale. The men are alcoholic, tobacco, gudakhu addicted totally unemployed, the females are only the earning member of the family. Women empowerment cropped out along this region. Women are engaged in timber related industries, broomstick making, repairing of the tyres, different types of plantation medicinal plants are the main sources of employment. The residential living is of haphazard conditions dominate by the problem of sanitization. To explore the residential conditions and the subsistence of the living are the dominant objectives of the study. The wages are directly related to the structure of the residents and the nature of livelihood in slums. For a rapid development different policy, government support including the NGO’s needed to be developed of the good fortune and prosperity in the slums.

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