EDUCATION IN SLUMS

Education plays a vital role in economic growth of any economy. With increasing urbanization,urban migration has led to a serious problem of increase in urban slums. These urban poor usually consist of semi-skilled or unskilled labor. The poor condition of these urban poor in slumareas is mainly due to their inability to compete with skilled labor class and afford a decent  standard of living.

Slums: residence of urban poor

For billions of people, the urban experience is one of poverty and exclusion. Often, studies over look those residents of a city whose homes and work are unofficial or unregistered precisely those most likely to be poor or suffer discrimination i.e. the slums. Difficult urbanliving conditions reflect and are exacerbated by factors such as illegality, limited voice indecision-making and lack of secure tenure, assets and legal protection. Exclusion is oftenreinforced by discrimination on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, race or disability. In addition,cities often expand beyond the capacity of the authorities to provide the infrastructure and

services needed to ensure people’s health and well

-being.A significant proportion of urban population growth is occurring in the most unplanned anddeprived areas. These factors combine to push essential services especially education beyond thereach of children and families living in poor urban neighborhoods. However, By no means do allof the urban poor live in slums and by no means is every inhabitant of a slum poor. Nevertheless, slums are an expression of, and a practical response to, deprivation and exclusion