“AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON DEPRIVATION OF PUNE CITY SLUMS”

Since 65 years of Independence, deprivation is a long awaited issue in India. Deprivation is one of the hard tasks in front of the governments to get resolved. Deprivation has multi-dimensions in the form of opportunity, access and availability. The effect of deprivation is on education, health, food, income, employment, houses, water, sanitation, social infrastructure and basic human rights of the common man. According to the World Development Report 2011, UNDP Indian deprivation is more than 40%. It shows how poor and low standard of living exists in India. Deprivation was brought to limelight by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen. He had described poverty as capability deprivation, where capability is defined as the freedom or ability to lead a life of value in terms of what a person chooses to be or to do. Capability poverty then means 1deprivation of basic capabilities .