Human development in slum area: A case study of Davangere City

Anneshi R

Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Human development in slum area: A case study of Davangere City

Anneshi R

Abstract :

 Karnataka is visualizing an increase in urbanization over the decades of economic progress achieved under various Plan . For instance, in 1960–61, 22.96 percent constituted the urban population increased significantly to 38.57 % in 2011–12.With this rapid urbanization, problems like urban poverty, unemployment, underemployment, emergence of slums, lack of civic amenities such as drinking water, sanitation, roads, health, electrification, pollution, overcrowding, crimes and so on. To study the human development of the people living in slum areas in Davangere city, notified slums such as Shekarappa Nagara and Sri Ram Nagara are selected for analysis. The education level, health status and decent standard of living of these slum areas are studied by selecting 50 households. It is found that there are 62.2 % of literates and 37.8% of illiterates indicating the awareness of importance of education. With regard to health status, the data reveals that 25% of the households suffer from communicable diseases and 4.4. Facilities of both government and private sectors .Further, 72% of the households are depending on public water supply, while 28% of the households have their own tap facility . With regard to sanitation, only 40 % of the respondents have their own toilet facility and the remaining 60 percent of the households depend on open fields indicating that there is an urgent need for providing individual toilet facilities to all the households