Chapter 8: Basic Services for Urban Poor
The chapter discusses about the slum population in the city with their access to basic services drawn from discussions with the slum people, discussions with the DUDA officials and the secondary data. The aim is to identify the various issues related to the status of infrastructure and suggest strategies and proposals for the improvement and efficient service delivery. It also deals with the spatial location of the slums in the city.
8.1 SLUM POPULATION
As per the Census 2001, the total slum population in the city is 1,21761. The percentage of slum population in the city is 9.5 per cent of the total population, which is less than the percentage of slum population to total urban population of the state (12.7 per cent).
As per DUDA there are 252 slum pockets (Map:8) with a population of the order of 5.5 lakhs i.e. about 44 per cent of the total population. (The slum pocket wise population is given in Annexure 8.1).
The slum population in the city has been spread over in many wards. As per Census, the ward wise slum population is given in Annexure 8.2. The household (HH) size in slums works out to be 6.86, which is more than the HH size of the total population (6.45). The sex ratio in the slums (850) is more than that of the total population (846) where as the literacy rate is 51.32 per cent, which is very less than the total literate population (60.14 per cent).
Out of a total number of 80 wards in the city, 44 number ofwards have slums (Fig 8.1). The slum population in the wards varies from 2.66 per cent to maximum of 91.85 per cent. Ward nos. 11 and 17 near Taj Nagar and Trans Yamuna have more than 50 percent of the population as slumpopulation.
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