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What is a slum?

Urbanization poses several socio-economic

and environmental problems for cities in India and one

among them is the rise of slums. A slum represents ahabitat unit with defective physical, social, and

economic living conditions

A heavily populated urban area characterized by

substandard Housing and Squalor. On areas of poor

housing often characterized by Muti-occupance

overcrowding.

Madurai Total Slums : 208

Slum Relocation

MYTH: Relocating slum residents to housing projects on

the outskirts of the city solves the slum problem.

REALITY: Resettling slum residents far from their original

homes and job opportunities is not usually viable. The

economic and social disruption costs are too high.

What are slums?

Habitations located on disputed as well as unused

government, municipal and private land and

characterized by a serious lack of basic amenities and

sanitation with dense and overcrowded housing

conditions.


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A Slum is taken to mean hutting areas with

squalid surroundings where:

Huts are erected in a haphazard manner without proper

access.

Minimum basic amenities are lacking

Protected water supply and drainage arrangements do

not exist.

SLUMS Its Roots

Poverty Prospects in rural areas

Bigger opportunities in cities Preference on labor market than agriculture Unemployment Improper Government Policies

Ignorance by Local Bodies

Reasons of slums:

Change in agricultural scenario

No prospects in rural areas

Bigger opportunities in cities

Preference on labor market than agriculture


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Results ofSlums

Slums = Poverty

Poor Living conditions

No Education

Very poor hygiene conditions

Poor health care

A fact reveals that:

Slum Population all over

India is 40,297,341 (40 million).

4% of total Indian population lives in slums

Almost quarter of Indian metro cities live in slums.

Sadly 5million of these populations are young children

(0-6 age group).


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Occupation in slums

l Self-employed in primary sector activities: 0.96

l Non-government salaried employment : 0.15

l Business 4.46

l Wage labor and other than own account

workers 0.42

l Self-employed professional and worker 5.71

l Non-earners 3.74

l Union government employment 7.19

l State government employment 4.36

Alarming growth ofSlums in India


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Initiatives:

Different Governments have different ways to handle

the problem of growing slums.

Various NGOs are also taking initiatives to help govt in

dealing with this issue.

Agencies like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Mission

(JNNURM) and Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) plan the

Rehabilitation of the slums in metros.


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Karumbalai- Introduction

Karumbalai is a famous developing

slum in Madurai situated near Anna Bus

stand. With a wide no of Community people

living in this locality, this area comprises of

nearly 2000 poor houses. Spread in all four

directions it is named by the name

S.M.Colonyfrom the year 1968. It is a smallunity based slum setting an example for other

people throughout the State.


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The Scenetic view of Karumbalai

History

In the past 50 years before it was a big pool

.Thirumalai Nayak used this place to produce

sugar for his construct his palace .So this

place was called as Karumbalai .After

construct that palace our local government

gave this place to wakf board (minority

Muslim organization )that time some of the

rural migrated people occupied this place for

their residents .After this slum clearance


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board gave this place to the migrated people

.Mostly the people migrated from

kallupatti,virudhunagar ,usilampatti,Andhra

Pradesh ,tirunelveli,kovilpatti etc

Total population in Karumbalai

Caste Male Female

Sc 1724 1712

MBC 165 157

BC 1214 1183

0C 5 7

TOTAL 3108 3052


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SHG (Self Help Groups)

There are three self help groups namely;

Tamil Annai Gents Group

Roja Ladies group

Kalanjiyam Groups


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Occupation of people in Karumbalai

Most Males at this region work as

masons,carpenters,tailors and run small

petty shops

Generally men work as coolie on

temporary basis.

Most females work as sweepers, house

maids/servants in various areas in and

around the slum


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SEED- The NGO Sheltering the needs of

the poor children

Seed believes in bringing out the potential of

each child by individual care and attention. So

many children from among the urban poor

drop out because of lack of support at home

and in school. Seed provides the critical

support necessary for the children to realizetheir potential and succeed - compete on par

with children from more advantaged classes.


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Health status

No visible health hazard or malnutrition.

But due to their low income and livingconditions there are chances of

unbalanced diet, which may lead to

malnutrition and associated diseases.

Sanitation

No separate toilet facility.

Corporation has constructed a common

toilet. But it is not used properly.

People themselves have constructed a

toilet for them.


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Water Facilities

Only non drinkable water is available

Access to purified water is less.


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Major caste groups in Karumpalai

There are no of caste groups are here

.the majority caste are

yDalits

yDevar

yNadar

yVellalars .

Major conflict between the castes

Actually Devar community is the

dominant community in this area so when the

festival and celebrating time they use to fight

with other caste people .And the Dalit

peoples needs for their basic rights so they

use to argue with other dominant castes so it

made a conflict at that time .then each and

every community has their own temples

.when the festival time they use to fight .even

murder also happened once in a year .so

police always protect and supervise this area


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.this area comes under E2 anna nagar police

station .there are number of cases as for this

conflicts .

Religious profile

There are three major religion are

following here .the majority religious people

are hindus .you can see lots of hindu temples

in Karumbalai. The semi majority religious

people are muslims .there is one sarasans

mosque and jamath also here .they have build

Arabic teaching school here .the emerging

religion here is Christianity .they are

spreading their religion through the Sunday

service ,summer camps and weekly twice

religious meeting .

Political profile

Here there are many political parties are

there .The majority parties are DMK, ADMK,

VCK .Now the counselor of Karumbalai

belongs to DMK party.Ward member now is

Mr.V.Karuppiah .


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Personalities we meet while visit

Mr.V.Karuppiah ward counselor

Mrs .palaniammal Head mistress ofkarumaplai primary school

Mrs.Indira Gandhi Head of the self help

group

Mr.Thamari selvan co-ordinator of seed ngoMrs. Indira sub-inspector of police

Major disadvantages in a Slum

oIn addition to their primarily informal-

sector

incomes, the residents of these settlements

suffer from multiple disadvantages:

opublic services are inadequate,


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oaccess to health care, education and

socio-political decision-making processes

is limited

oand the protection of public security is

seldom guaranteed by public authorities.

Conclusion

For a long time, the neglect, eviction or

forced resettlement ofinformal settlers

was the only response of developing

countries tothe continuing urbanization

process.

There is now aninternational consensus

that comprehensive improvement of the

living conditions in informal settlements


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(slum upgrading) is necessaryin order to

create conditions for long-term poverty

reductionand to gradually raise the

quality of life in poor neighborhoods.

We shall not finally defeat AIDS,

tuberculosis, malaria or any of the other

infectious diseases that plague the developing

world until we have also won the battle for

safe drinking water, sanitation and basic

health care.

Kofi Annan,

Former United Nations Secretary-General


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Caste groups


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Political parties


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Major worshiping places in karumbalai


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Educational instutions


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Ration shop

Youth welfare organisation


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On the field .


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