Question

"Growth of slums is a common feature of urbanisation." State five disadvantages of the growth of slums.

Answer 1

The disadvantages of the growth of slums are:

1. Due to substandard life conditions, those who live in slums are more subject to risks and accidents. Most of the homes are not well-built. Slum homes frequently have issues including leaking roofs, sewage water leaking through the walls, and damaged roofs.
2. Because of the unsanitary situations, slum communities are more likely to have infectious illnesses like dengue, typhoid, malaria, and so on. The population as a whole may become infected with these diseases.
3. Slums might exhibit behaviors like drug misuse, drunkenness, criminality, etc. since they remain cut off from the rest of urban society.
4. The people have no formal rights to the land, and they have not planned this settlement. In addition, there's hardly much security in the slum buildings.
5. The polluted conditions in the slum regions could be caused by pollution and contamination of the land, air, and water. Such contamination can even extend to non-slum areas that are close by and contiguous.