Madurai Slums Melakailasapuram 2009 1

MELAKAILASAPURAMOBSERVATION VISIT
This presentation is part of the MSW field work / observation program of Madurai Institute of Social Sciences, Madurai, Tamilnadu , India

“BLACK HISTORY OF WHITE SOULS”

SLUM “Curse or Boon”
A slum, as defined by the United Nations Agency un-habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security.
JUST IMAGINE…..
According to this slum population all over India is 40,297,341 (40 million) from the 607 cities/towns reporting slums.

ABOUT MADURAI
Madurai district is one of the oldest district of the Taminadu State and considered as the cultural capital of Tamilnadu.
BUT……
Madurai has 208 slums within its Municipal Corporation limits and about a 3 lakh people living there (i.e., 22.35% of total population)

MELAKAILASAPURAM
Area:

Melakailasapuram is about 5Km away from centre of the city.
Total Area: 26 acres
Total Population : 3,030
Occupation : Washing, Sanitation Work, Basket Weaving, Tri Cycle Drivers, Garland work
Religion : All Religions in which ¼ are Muslims
Caste : All caste of people are living together

We observed the following conditions in Melakailasapuram
Environment and Health
About Weaker Section

Children
Women
Aged People

Occupation
General Hazards

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Area
Water

Unhygienic Living Condition
Drainage

CHILDREN
Living Conditions
Education

Health
Others

WOMEN
Health & Occupations
Developmental Programme

AGED PEOPLE
Health
Living Condition

OCCUPATION
Scavengers
Basket Weaving

Washing Workers
Undertakers

UNORGANIZED LABOR ASSOCIATION

General Hazards
Lack of infrastructure
Lack of Awareness
Socially Exclusion
Poor Literacy
Scopeless and Hopeless
Socially Stigmatized

LEARNING OUTCOME

THE SOCIAL WORK TRAINEES
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M.HemaLatha
E.Rijuvana
S.Veeramal
S.MaheshKarthick
N.Sritharan
M.Thangam
P.Ragu
S.Pitchai
G. Sankaranarayanan
T. ArunKumar
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