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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)
As the slum clearance movement gathered pace, deprived areas such as Old Nichol were fictionalised to raise awareness in the middle classes in the form of moralist novels such as A Child of the Jago (1896) resulting in slum clearance and reconstruction programmes such as the Boundary Estate (1893-1900) and the creation of charitable trusts such ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
[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.
In contemporary times, squatting since the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War has resulted from factors such as migration from rural areas to urban ones, the lack of affordable housing, bad governance and natural disasters. [1] [2]: 17–18 As well as informal settlements on the ground, there are rooftop slums and boat squatters. [1]
List of slums in Bangladesh; List of favelas in Brazil; E. ... List of slums in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 12:24 (UTC). Text ...