The document discusses the challenging conditions of slums in Bangladesh, where about 3.5 million people live in extremely poor circumstances due to unplanned urbanization and industrialization. It highlights the migration from rural areas to urban centers like Dhaka, driven by economic opportunities and environmental disasters, leading to a severe increase in slum populations. The paper also explores the social problems associated with slums, their impact on inhabitants, and potential measures to alleviate these issues.

2. Supervisor
Md Tawohidul Haque
Lecturer
Institute of Social Welfare and Research
University of Dhaka
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S.M. Sahadat
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Md Jakir Hossain
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Md Juel Miah
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Tanjila Islam
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Maria Khanam
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3. Topic:
Slum Condition in
Bangladesh

4. Slum is one of the major
social problems in urban life in Bangladesh. As a
developing and over populated country
thousands of people live here under the poverty
level. Bangladesh is a country of 164 million
people where 3.5 million people live in 4000
slums. The slum problems are the fruit of
unplanned urbanization and industrialization.

5. Concept of slum in Bangladesh:
Slums are consisted with the peoples who are
deprived and neglected from fundamental needs
like fresh food, pure water and good shelter.
Slums are the areas of city (mainly Dhaka) city
where people live with hunger, malnutrition and
different kinds of diseases. Where children’s don’t
go to school they go for job for food. Slums are
the places where people suffer malaria mosquito,
dirty environment and bad small that means an
area which is out of imagination of rich people.

6. Overall features of slums in Bangladesh:
Slums are not a new phenomenon. They have
been part of the history of Dhaka city. The
amounts of slum dwellers in Bangladesh are
increasing day by day. The characteristic
associated with slums very place to place.
Slums are usually urban decay, high rates of
poverty and unemployment. Slum is the place
of increasing many social problems such as
crime, drug addiction, and high rate of
population growth.

7. Slums condition in Dhaka city
Causes behind migrate people from villages to
Dhaka city:
• The migration of people from rural to urban
areas is the main reason of the growing slum
population in Dhaka city. The upward trend of
the rural population contributes to the
downward land-man ratio. As a result, landless
and jobless people on the breadline are
increasing day by day.

8. Reasons for Migration towards
Dhaka City
Economic: 57.1
Environmental disasters: 25.0
Personal or familial: 08.9
Social or political:01.0
Others: 08.0
Total:100.0

9. Study in the slum of Dhaka city:
• The total number of slums in the Dhaka city
corporation area is approximately 4,500. For
the study only 4 slums at Agargaon,
Bhasantek, Badda and Katashur were
surveyed.Dhaka city is one of the most densely
populated cities in the world. It has already
been mentioned over 34 percent of them live in
slums with inadequate facilities.

10. Statistics:
• Statistics show that the average population density in
slums was 831 persons per acre. More than 93% of
slums were reported to have very high population
density and very poor environmental services, and
85% had very poor housing conditions.
• Slum Area and Overall City, 2013
Dhaka
891
Chittagong
1032
Khulna
536
Rajshahi
272
Sylhet
626
Barisal
541
all cities
831

11. Causes of formation of slum:
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Effect of industrialization and urbanization
Lack Rural unemployment and of opportunity
Unplanned city lack of civic amenities
Natural disaster
Political influence
Poor housing planning
Informal economy
Low incomes from agriculture
Better job prospects

12. The impacts of slums:
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Bad effect on woman and girls
Sources of criminal activities
Environment pollution
Increase poverty
Climate change
Housing problems
Political exclusion
Finance
Education
Health and child mortality

13. Way to minimize the slum problem:
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To minimize poverty
Increase per-capital income
Consciousness about natural disaster
Planning of rehabilitation
Finance plus approach
To make several slum units
To meet their fundamental rights
Governmental efforts
To create more employment opportunities

14. Role of social workers to solve the
Slum problems:
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Community development
Slum study
Resource mobilization of slum dwellers
Coordination among the different social
service agencies
• To make them awareness regarding social
problems

15. Conclusion:
“Slum life” means a bad dreamy life,
life of man as non-human being, and
the final deprivation from fundamentals
constitutional rights-it is proved from
the description of this paper.

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