GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN SLUMS OF NER WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TRIPURA

Manisha Karmakar and Dr. Jahar Debbarma

Abstract
Economic development is generally reflected by growth of urbanization. With rapid growth of urbanisation slums are also growing. By definition, Slum dwellers are itself the vulnerable section of society and are the result of different types of discrimination like availing basic facilities of human being, gender, economic power etc. The economic wealth of a country is seriously depleted if about half of the nation‟s human resource that is, women are neglected. Again As per census-2001, in India 42.6 million are slum people (i.e., it constitutes 4 percent of the total population of the country) and in 2011, the total number of slum households is 137.5 lakh, which is 17.4 percent of the total urban households of all the states and union territories. This paper will trace out the gender discrimination between slum and total population and gender discrimination among the slum dwellers of states of North East Region of India reporting slum with special reference to Tripura, on the basis of demographic profile, availing basic facilities like education; taking part in economic work.
Keywords: Slum, Gender Discrimination, Total population, North-East Region (NER).