• ATIN KUMAR GHOSH

The appearance of slum can be seen with the process of urbanization in a developing country like India. Cities are facing a massive change in their size, population and services. The cities, irrespective of their size, provide possibilities of varied occupations and collective services, such as health, education, cultural, technological, commercial or industrial services and thus act as focal points of development opportunities. With this development many problems arrives for a city and nowadays slum is one of them. Most of the slums faces economic problems like unemployment, low per capita income, poverty etc. they termed as urban poor. With increasing urban migration in the years ahead, the economic problems in urban slums will also acquire increasing dimension unless special efforts are initiated to mitigate these problems of the urban poor. Improving economic condition of urban poor requires a more direct, more focused, and more integrated strategy. This paper presents a content analysis on the economic status of slum people of Berhampore Municipality. Here the economic condition of those people have been reflected.

Urbanization, Slum, Development, Unemployment, poverty

"ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE SLUM AREAS OF BERHAMPORE MUNICIPALITY, MURSHIDABAD DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.200-204, May-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804261.pdf

"ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE SLUM AREAS OF BERHAMPORE MUNICIPALITY, MURSHIDABAD DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp200-204, May-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804261.pdf