Concentration of Slums in Urban Area & it's Problems Prospect: A Study on Chakdah Municipality, Nadia District, West Bengal

The term ‘slum’ is characterized by high density of population with low standards of housing, lack of basic facilities and unhygienic condition. The living condition of slum dwellers is dissatisfactory. This is true that slum dwellers have not received due attention in urban planning and have largely remained an area of neglect. The situation of slum dwellers is worst in developing country like India. Chakdah is one of the emerging living urban centers of Nadia District, also faces the difficulties of urban expansion. In every urban area the concentration of slum is a common fact now a day and the number of slum increase rapidly because a maximum part of the village people come and join the urban lifestyle for better income and opportunity. As a result, urban population density growing extremely.