Bhandhu Motor Worksà

Md Mahedi Hasan Sarif

Bangladesh is a country of about 146.10 million of people containing nearly 5.3 million of slum people. Two censuses and many surveys on slum people were conducted by the government of Bangladesh to know and figure out the key problems of slum dwellers. A brief overview about the slum of Bangladesh has presented in this paper by analyzing the censuses and survey report. An informative scrutiny on number, structure and housing condition of slum, nature of slum people, common standard of living and wretchedness of slum people, income patterns, poverty scenario and NGOs coverage has presented in this paper. Finally, some suggestion has designed to remove the problems of slum people.Usually it is claimed that, a large number of poor people come to the divisional cities and adjacent paurashavas for livelihood and many other purposes, which highly contribute to create slums. In the slum census of 1997, firstly it was tried to find out the key reasons of migration to slum areas.

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