ABSTRACT
The socioeconomic status of slum dwellers is generally poor as a result of lack of basic social facilities: supply of education, financial benefits, sanitation, and health resources. They migrate from village to city in search of employment and stay in slum areas. Little attention is paid to the fact that the majority of slum dwellers are migrants to the city, who are victims of unbalanced development processes, social injustice, and inequalities. This study explores the socioeconomic development of slum dwellers relating to socioeconomic conditions and their migration from rural areas. This chapter is analytical in nature and also measures the economic status index and social status index of slum peoples in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar city of Odisha. Here, the requirement for an all-encompassing methodology that considers to the different elements of social, monetary, in framing any slum improvement policy/scheme ought to be stressed.
