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Social Problems In Bangladesh

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Chittagong is the second largest city of Bangladesh. It is located on the west by the Bay of Bengal and on the east by the Karnafully river. The city has an estimated population of 40,09,423 in an area of about 184 sq. km (http://www.citypopulation.de/php/bangladesh-chittagong.php). A host of environmental and social problems beset the port city of Chittagong due to mushrooming of slums, which is largely blamed on unplanned urbanization. More than two hundred slums accommodating some 10 lakh people are scattered across the city, shows a 2010 survey of Chittagong City Corporation(http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=262229).The structural conditions of those slums are one of the worst in the world. The slum people live without open space, streets, water, gas …show more content…

Their life strategy is very tragedic. Most of the slum dwellers are illiterate. We also found that most of the family contains 5-6 members. Only one or two member is earning. Their daily income is 100-150 taka. This amount is very insufficient for a family. They have no easiest way to earn money. Also they face many problems that are not explainable in words. Maximum people are doing the little works like as rickshaw puller, shop keeper etc. Maximum slums are situated beside the railway, riverbank. They cannot eat highly protein food and affected by a lot of diseases. They live from hand to mouth. In a month they can eat meat or fish only one or two times. Most of the slum dwellers are no educated. They also wanted to make their children educated to get a good job. They are suffering from a lot of problems. From the survey we found that they have no boundary of suffering. They also want a beautiful life, which can make them very happy. If they are improved, our society will also improve. They are the part of our society. So without their improvement society cannot be improved. Our government, NGO, rich people, need some necessary steps for

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