1Research Scholar, School of Earth Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
2Assistant Professor and Research Guide, School of Earth Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
Online published on 5 December, 2015.
The housing status of slums in Nanded is very poor. They have not proper shelter for them. They live near the railway tracks and road banks in kaccha and semi kaccha houses. They are not able to fulfil their basic needs like food, cloths etc. The study emphasis about the sanitation conditions of slum clusters, the unhygienity prevail due to open urination and excretion. They have not able to access the basic household amenities. In present paper we tried to study the slum settlement, slum population & land ownership of slums in the Nanded city. Slum dwellers live in the difficult social and economic conditions that manifest in different forms of deprivation material, physical, social, and political in Nanded city. The slum area does not have even the essential facilities; for example, health care, water supply, roads, disposition of wastages, etc. In comparison with the south part of the city, the slums and the slum-dwellers are increasing in the north. Not only the slum dwellers but also the number of slums is increasing in the city. In 1971 total population of Nanded city were 126518 out of which Slum population were 20000 and in 2011 total population of city increases up to 550564 out of which Slum population is 279024. The slum population accounts 15.80 percent of the city population in 1971 whereas it increases up to 38.79 in 2011. This shows that rapid increase in slum population in Nanded city and it creates many social and economical problems in Nanded city.
