Pitiable condition of slums

Pitiable condition of slums

Slums are the sign of negative development of our cities. The more slums we see, the more badly the city progresses. There are a number of slums in my city. These slums are the breeding grounds of mosquitoes, houseflies and form the arena for outbursts of epidemics like cholera, typhoid, plague, etc… Here, houses are located just a few feet away from open drainages. These slums fall in the sight of the government only during elections and at all other times they are left helpless. Hygiene is the biggest worry in such areas. Even surveyors find it difficult to enter such places. The atmosphere is itself stinky. People of these slums are too poor to clean their area by themselves.  It is not just the slums that are not being maintained well. Even the people of these slums don’t have enough food to eat or money to buy important commodities.  Slums in my city are in a condition that people who see it would feel sympathetic and they try to help those people living there. No one is ready to take up the responsibility of maintaining slums in a better way.

            The funds that central and state government allocate to build slums don’t reach the needy. Mediators in the middle store money in their pockets and when the fund reaches the bottom most people of the society, nothing is left for them. Highly backward slums are a black mark to developing countries like India and I feel that the government must immediately act on this problem. Government must make sure that all subsidies primely reach such economically backward people.