Environmental Problems of Urban Slum of Chakdaha Block in Nadia District: A Geographical Review

Abstract

According to Encyclopedia of the City (2005), The term "slum" is often used to describe the poor living conditions in Victorian Britain, especially in industrial English towns, lowland Scottish towns, and the Irish capital, Dublin City. Friedrich Engels called these British neighborhoods "cattle-sheds for humans." According  to this paper , urbanization develops slums as a result of local governments' inability to regulate urbanization and migrant workers' lack of affordable housing in chakdaha urban area . Michael P. (1969).,  Rapid urbanization stimulates economic growth and draws people to urban areas for employment and investment opportunities. However, WestBengal is situated in the eastern part of India. Nadia district is the eastern part of  West Bengal state. Kolkata is the major city nearchakdaha only  50 km distance from it. But Kolkata metropolitan is not so far only 12 km from

kanchrapara. Chakdaha municipality located at south-eastern part of Nadia. The Latitude of Chakdaha is 23.0766667°. The Longitude of Chakdaha is 88.5294444°. Longitude can be mapped to closest address of Chakdaha, West Bengal, India  as indicated by inadequate urban infrastructure and housing, local administrations are frequently incapable of managing this change. The reflection of this new research was made possible through participatory observations and the author's residence in a slum in order to verify the socioeconomic practices that shaped, planned, and governed space in slums of chaakdaha as a study area in west bengal .