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Redefining Quality of Life through Provision of Basic Services for Slum Inhabitants

Krishna Kumar Dhote, Neelam Soni, Preeti Onkar

Abstract


Urbanization has fuelled the growth of cities & town, at the same time it has created tremendous pressure on civic infrastructure and exploitation of resources. On one hand it has alarmingly improved the life style and trends, but on the other hand its creation of potential for livelihood opportunities has forced people to live in vulnerable conditions. This vulnerable section of society present a poor picture of quality of life earmarked as slums. The slum inhabitants severely lack basic services and amenities. An attempt has been made to focus on paradigm shifts for benchmarking of services in different policies and programmes right from the beginning to the present scenario and to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the definition of quality of life for slum Inhabitants.
“A slum will still be a slum if replaced with overcrowded, unsanitary high-rises, but will no longer be a slum if it has access to safe water, sanitation, and other basic quality of life requirements”. - Dennis Zhou

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrrpd.v1i2.31

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