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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)
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 ...
The assumption behind this approach is that if slums are given basic services and tenure security – that is, the slum will not be destroyed and slum residents will not be evicted, then the residents will rebuild their own housing, engage their slum community to live better, and over time attract investment from government organizations and ...
About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the capital city of Dhaka, government officials ...
[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.
"Slum ablaze in Bangladesh". NBC News. 20 September 2012. "Documenting global hope through image: Photojournalist shares experience". Women's News Network. 20 August 2014. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019 Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is a city of slums ... 5,000 slums in the Dhaka metropolitan area ...
Given that Bangladesh continued to urbanize during this time, there are now more people living in extreme poverty in urban Bangladesh (3.3 million) than in 2010 (3 million). [17] Since independence the average rate of urbanization in Bangladesh is 5% [ 18 ] (World Bank 2012) & percentage share of urban population has doubled, from 15% in 1974 ...
Rampura Thana (Bengali: রামপুরা থানা) is a police administrative area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It encloses parts of Banasree residential area and Dhaka North City Corporation wards 22 and 23. The major thoroughfare DIT Road passes through this area and connects it to Badda, Ramna & Motijheel thanas.