SOCIO – ECONOMIC AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE OF SLUM – DWELLERS IN MALEGAON
Keywords:
Landuse, Socio-economic, Occupation, Slum-dwellersAbstract
An attempt has been made here to focus upon the socio-economic and Occupational structure as well as to analyse the problem of the slum dwellers and suggest the redevelopment plan for their development. Author has selected slums of Malegaon city in Nasik district. The city has 129 slums (32 declared and 97 non-declared) with 25336 huts (10514 +14822) with 159953 (74531 + 85422) population accounting 35 % of total population of Malegaon city. One slum namely ‘Yassin-Miyan-ka-Takkiya ’of ward number 45 was selected for indepth study. The questionnaire was administrated to every family and identified the socio-economic problems and suggested manifold measures to solve these problems to Yassin-Miyan-ka-Takkiya in Malegaon city.
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