HEALTH CONDITION, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT(OCCUPATION) ,LIVELIHOOD

HEALTH CONDATION: 1) It is common knowledge that slums lack basic need

services like, safe drinking water, healthcare facilities, sanitation, housing
problems, education etc. The lack of these basic services has both direct and
indirect effect on the health of the urban slum dwellers.
2) in urban slums areas, the income for the poor
increase marginally, which does not assure a better health condition due to the
un-affordability of safe drinking water and air. The poor of the urban areas are
driven to the outer space of urban, where living conditions are the most
degraded and has a little economic value.
3)Health challenges in urban slums • Poor access to
healthcare- although slums live in close to many healthcare centres, but they
generally have little access to high quality healthcare.
4) Overcrowded, substandard housing facilitates
the spread of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis,
dengue fever, pneumonia, cholera and malaria. Poor sanitation and
lack of access to safe food and water contribute to high prevalence
of diarrhoea within slums. The lack of structurally sound, climate-
adapted and ventilated homes further puts the health of slum
dwellers at risk of climate change-related extreme weather –
including heat waves, cold or storms.

5) Moreover, slum areas are often left out of

major city networks for access to health-care services. Unplanned
urban development exacerbates non-communicable disease risks
related to outdoor and indoor air pollution.

EDUCATION: 1) Most slum children go to schools where teaching

standards are low and classrooms are seriously under-equipped. For most slum
families, educating their children is the last thing on their minds.
2) Every child up to the age of 14 is entitled to free
schooling.
3) sri sri nagar slum which we visited has and elementary
school run by a trust. But they run only primary school from pre primary to 1 or 2
class.
4)for higher education they can approach to government
schools in circle of about 2to 3km (Kukatpally)
 Employment 1) People at sri sri nagar depent on daily wages labour work
for employment
2) some run small retail shops at main road near bus stop of
prashati nagar
3)Most of people have seen doing tailoring at there own
residence
4) labour work such as :construction work(kooli)
Daily wages work at factories,

Some of the work done by laborers includes:

 concrete - shotcrete, gunite, grouting and steel forms

 demolition - concrete cutting, pavement breaking, cutting

torch

 environmental remediation and hazardous waste

 fences and landscaping

 street sweeping

 hod carrier - block

masonry, plasterers and fireproofing
 paving - white paving formwork, traffic
control, striping, signs
 piping - water pipe, sewer and storm drain
 field technology
 general digging
 tunnels - drilling and blasting
 dry utilities - electrical conduit and communications
conduit
 loading and offloading - handling of physical goods,
such as construction materials