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This is a list of slums in Bangladesh. Begun Bari [1] Bhola (Dhaka North) [2] City Palli (Dhaka South) Driver Colony (Dhaka South) Duaripara (Dhaka North) Kawnia; Korail slum (Dhaka North) Lalbagh (Slum)|Lalbagh; Mach Colony; Mannan (Dhaka South) Mohammadpur (Slum)|Mohammadpur; Molla (Dhaka North) Monsur Beel / Nama Para; Mymensingh (Slum ...
Begunbari is a slum [1] mahallah (neighborhood) in Ward 37 of Tejgaon Thana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to the 2011 Bangladesh census , it had 9,034 households and a population of 34,517. [ 2 ]
[13] The religious breakdown was Muslim 99.46% (93,095), Hindu 0.52% (491), Christian 0.01% (11), Buddhist 0.00% (4), and others 0.00% (00).. A 2006 survey of slums in Bangladesh found that the single largest concentration of slums in the Dhaka Metropolitan Area was in Kamrangirchar, and reported that of the approx. 300,000 people living there, 265,000 are slum dwellers.
The word slum has negative connotations, ... [110] [111] and slums near Dhaka after 2007 Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr. ...
The Karail slum in Mohakhali. About 30% of Dhaka's population lives in slums (or unplanned urban settlements), as of 2016. [119] Estimates from 2011 and 2015 found that there are about "3 to 5 thousand slums and squatter settlements scattered all over the city". [119]
[1] [2]: 17–18 As well as informal settlements on the ground, there are rooftop slums and boat squatters. [1] There are also rural squatters who make land grabs. [3] During the Bangladesh famine of 1974, flooding affected 80 per cent of the country and almost 100,000 people were displaced to 183 camps in Dhaka.
There is also a slum in the thana called Rampura Slum. [9] The Rampura canal serves as the primary drainage system for eastern Dhaka, facilitating the discharge of rainwater and industrial effluents from the region with the help of a storm water pump. Over time, it has faced challenges related to encroachment and unauthorized land occupation.
This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...