The Slum Dwellers in Bhubaneswar, India:From A Sustainable Livelihoods Perspective

Slum dwellers in Indian cities live in inhumane condition with lack of basic services, rights, and secure livelihood. Livelihoods of slum dwellers have attracted the attention of researchers, planners, and policymakers for the last couple of decades. The study is an attempt to evaluate the livelihoods of slum dwellers to find out the presence of sustainable features and suggest strategies to establish and promote livelihood resilience, which will make it sustainable.

This study employs the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) for analyzing the livelihoods of the dwellers in a selected slum community in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. This is one of a few studies around the World that uses SLA in an urban context.