Slums and

Slum
Housings

Anamika Bhagwari
Ashna Ramachandran
Mugdha Gupta

Design Assignment
What are Slums?

∞ Definition – a highly populated urban residential area consisting

mostly of closed packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of
deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by
impoverished persons.
∞ Hutting areas with squalid surroundings where:
 Huts are built in a haphazard manner without proper access.
 Minimum basic amenities are lacking
 Protected water supply and drainage arrangements do not exist.
It is thought that slum is a British slang
word from the East End of London
meaning "room", which evolved to "back
slum" around 1845 meaning 'back alley,
street of poor people.'

Fun Fact
Causes that create and expand
slums

∞Rural–urban migration
∞Urbanization
∞Poor house planning
∞Colonialism and segregation
∞Poor infrastructure, social exclusion and economic stagnation
∞Informal economy
∞Poverty
∞Politics
∞Social conflicts
∞Natural disasters
Problems

1. AMENITIES, WATER, SANITARY

 Lack of basic amenities like unclean drinking water, proper housing,
drainage and excreta disposable services.
 Poor sanitary conditions and poor quality water lead to illness like
diarrhoea and other water borne diseases affecting life of slum
people.
2. EMPLOYMENT
 High Unemployment
 Small Scale Business
 Domestic Violence
3. CHILDREN IN SLUMS
 Many children in slums start working at a very early age with no
prospect of getting education due to poverty.
 Child malnutrition is more common in slums than in non-slum
areas.
FACTS

– Slum Population all over India is 40 million(approx.)

– 4% of total Indian population lives in slums.
– Almost quarter of Indian metro cities live in slums.
– Sadly 5 million of this population are young children(0-6 age
group).
 Types of slums

 Notified Slums
 All notified areas in a town or city notified as ‘Slum’ by State, UT
Administration or Local Government under any Act including a ‘Slum Act’.
 Recognized Slums
 All areas recognized as ‘Slum’ by State, UT Administration or Local
Government, Housing and Slum Boards, which may have not been
formally notified as slum under any act.
 Identified Slums
 A compact area of at least 300 population or about 60-70 households of
poorly built congested tenements, in unhygienic environment usually
with inadequate infrastructure and lacking in proper sanitary and drinking
water facilities (Identified).
Number of Slum Blocks by Type of
Slums – India : Census 2011

• Notified Slums 37,072

• Recognized Slums 30,846

• Identified Slums 40,309

Total: 1,08,227 Blocks

Towns Reporting Slums
India : Census 2011

• Out of 4,041 Statutory Towns in Census 2011 Slums reported

from 2,543 Towns (63%)

• Total Slum Enumeration Blocks (SEBs) in Census 2011 is about

1.08 lakh in the country

• Largest number of Slum EBs reported from Maharashtra (21,359)

Thank You

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