• Dr. Raj Kumar Nayak
• Ms.Suchitradash

The first four decades of India’s independence witnessed a significant increase in the pace of urbanization characterized by a strong concentration of urban population in a primate city, the emergence of slums and the urban poor and the increase in population of children and young under fifteen years of age. This sort of urban growth proved obnoxious for children; they became the most vulnerable group to the ills and risks wrought by urbanization. Many problems specifically concerning children assumed epidemic proportions. This desperate situation of the poor families forced children to live and work in the streets and supplement the family income in order to save themselves and parents from starving. Trapped in poverty, parents often neglected their youngsters or even abandoned. The aftermath is that all sorts of children-children with continuous family contact, with occasional family contact and without family contact- ventured on to the streets in search of shelter, food and family and in the process, got embroiled in risks hurled by both the society and the nature from which it has now become difficult for them the escape (Pandey, 1991 : 1). There are a number of studies e.g. Joe Arimpoor: 1992, Rita Panickar: 1992, Phillips: 1992, N Reddy : 1992, Rajendra Pandey: 1991, A Ghosh: 1992, Hazel D’ Lima: 1992 dealing with the situational analysis of street children of nine metropolitan cities of India with the help of UNICEF and Ministry of Welfare, Government of India, but not many concerning the different regions or states in India. That has been almost at one time.Thus, for sociologists studying the problem of street children is an important issue. But empirical studies about this issue are very less, therefore to undertake a study of street children in a specific region or a specific area is very needed to update about the existing problems of the upcoming generation

Street Children, Abandoned Children, Bhadrak City.

" STREET CHILDREN IN BHADRAK CITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.1425-1437, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802285.pdf

" STREET CHILDREN IN BHADRAK CITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp1425-1437, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802285.pdf