Level of Socio-Economic Wellbeing of People Living in Slums of Islamabad
Measuring well being of the people living in Slums of Islamabad by Wealth Index and by household deprivations as an application to Human Development Index (HDI) Nadeem Akhtar Abstract
In Pakistan and across the world, slums have been the characteristics of urban setting. Almost every slum setting exits across the boundaries of cities but in Islamabad, slums are right at the center of urban sectors and they are inhabited particularly on banks of riverine nullas. Notwithstanding, CDA has approved these slums. People started to dwell here from early 1960s and after 1997 CDA has regularized the slums covered under present study. Regularization provided inhabitants the right to build houses and live as legitimate member of the community. What particular socio-demographic characteristics they have, how households are distributed between and across communities, in terms of wealth index, and what patterns of household-level deprivations exit in all of these communities are the target of this research work. Findings show that wealth index varies within communities e.g. G7/1 slum is found as inhabiting largest poorest segment and G7/2 inhabiting largest richest segment of households. Household deprivations vary from 38 to 54 percent. In overall, about 45 percent of the total population is excess population that shows that these slums are over populated. It has been found that demographic transition has already been started for these communities, therefore, poverty and household deprivations have implications for their future socio-economic and demographic characteristics. Excess population, bad
management of solid waste disposal, and polluted water are other crucial issues that will ultimately challenge the future settlement conditions at each slum and have strong policy implications.
Introduction
In Pakistan, the socio-economic data and research that are available reflect the trends that do not include community wise statistics/evidence. Policy making in Pakistan is
In Pakistan and across the world, slums have been the characteristics of urban setting. Almost every slum setting exits across the boundaries of cities but in Islamabad, slums are right at the center of urban sectors and they are inhabited particularly on banks of riverine nullas. Notwithstanding, CDA has approved these slums. People started to dwell here from early 1960s and after 1997 CDA has regularized the slums covered under present study. Regularization provided inhabitants the right to build houses and live as legitimate member of the community. What particular socio-demographic characteristics they have, how households are distributed between and across communities, in terms of wealth index, and what patterns of household-level deprivations exit in all of these communities are the target of this research work. Findings show that wealth index varies within communities e.g. G7/1 slum is found as inhabiting largest poorest segment and G7/2 inhabiting largest richest segment of households. Household deprivations vary from 38 to 54 percent. In overall, about 45 percent of the total population is excess population that shows that these slums are over populated. It has been found that demographic transition has already been started for these communities, therefore, poverty and household deprivations have implications for their future socio-economic and demographic characteristics. Excess population, bad
management of solid waste disposal, and polluted water are other crucial issues that will ultimately challenge the future settlement conditions at each slum and have strong policy implications.
Introduction
In Pakistan, the socio-economic data and research that are available reflect the trends that do not include community wise statistics/evidence. Policy making in Pakistan is
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