DIP: 18.02.022/20251002 
DOI: 10.25215/2455/1002022 
Abstract
Slum, shanty towns, squealer settlements are interchangeably used to describe an area where people are used to living a substandard lifestyle often characterized by poverty, lack of housing, inadequate sanitation practices, lack of safe drinking water facility and poor environmental conditions. Sometimes slums are formed in government and private occupied land failed to claim legal documentations by its dwellers. Slum dwellers having multifaced problems including job insecurity, fear of eviction from the land, instable earnings, overcrowded population, improper waste disposal and drainage system means poor environmental conditions. They usually failed to attained basic educational level, while non-enrolment and high dropout rates common in slum areas. Thus, consequence of lacking education resulted in poverty trap and low-quality living standard. This paper mainly focused on explore educational levels of slum dwellers and it also seeks to demonstrate the living condition and lifestyle of slum dwellers.
The author(s) appreciates all those who participated in the study and helped to facilitate the research process. 
The author(s) declared no conflict of interest. 
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