Hazardous Slums: A Case Study on Visakhapatnam city

Abstract

Almost 32 percent of the world Urban population lived in slums, the majority of them in the developing world. The proportion of the urban population living in slums is about seven times as high in less developed countries percent and in more developed countries (6 percent). Welfare governments pushes the social overhead capitals allocate foundlings for development for slum environment improvement programmes but some of the slums are belongings to mostly hazardous areas like hilly areas, around with dirty urban slums, highly congested areas, near railway tracks and bank of main drainages these kind of slums are impossible to improve the quality of life so these are called hazardous slums. In my research study was conducted to the hazardous areas among families residing in urban slums of Visakhapatnam city. A comprehensive questionnaire-cum-interview schedule was designed to collect information 500 were collect from hazardous slum areas by simple random techniques the results revealed that among the selected families majority of the respondents.