karumbalai project
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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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