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Download Solution PDFSufficiency of which type of resources can help to create adequate social infrastructure catering to the needs of the large population in the developing countries?
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Download Solution PDFProblems of Human Settlements in Developing Countries:
- The settlements in developing countries suffer from various problems, such as unsustainable concentration of population, congested housing and streets, lack of drinking water facilities.
- They also lack infrastructures such as electricity, sewage disposal, health and education facilities.
- People flock to cities to avail themselves of employment opportunities and civic amenities.
- Since most cities in developing countries are unplanned, it creates severe congestion.
- Shortage of housing, vertical expansion and growth of slums are characteristic features of modern cities of developing countries.
- In many cities, an increasing proportion of the population lives in substandard housing, e.g. slums and squatter settlements.
- In most million-plus cities in India, one in four inhabitants lives in illegal settlements, which are growing twice as fast as the rest of the cities.
- Even in the Asia Pacific countries, around 60 per cent of the urban population lives in squatter settlements.
Socio-cultural Problems:
- Cities in developing countries suffer from several social ills.
- Insufficient financial resources fail to create adequate social infrastructure catering to the basic needs of the huge population.
- The available educational and health facilities remain beyond the reach of the urban poor.
- Health indices also, present a gloomy picture in cities of developing countries.
- Lack of employment and education tends to aggravate the crime rates.
- Male selective migration to the urban areas distorts the sex ratio in these cities.
Thus, financial resources sufficiency can help to create adequate social infrastructure catering to the needs of the large population in developing countries.
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