Socio-Economic Survey of People Live in Hallomajra, Chandigarh

Abstract

This research wishes to conduct a Socio-Economic survey in the village Hallomajra, Chandigarh. It is one of the 12 villages in Chandigarh under Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh. The survey work took place from December 2019 – March 2020. The sample size is 74 individuals, including wage workers, shopkeepers, street vendors, homemakers, factory workers, and others (few students above age 15, service providers, and old age people). The study brings out the significant social and economic aspects of the people living in the area. The thesis has three chapters. The first chapter presents the general idea of the socio-economic life of people who live in the centricity of Chandigarh. It includes history, the purpose of building the city, demographic, and spatial understanding of the city. The second chapter establishes the knowledge of the migrants, laborers, and their living conditions in the city. It also provides a framework to understand the hegemony of capital in the lives of the urban poor, and combination of the Informal and Formal sector. The third chapter analyzes the qualitative and quantitative data of the research work in support of the theories mentioned in the second chapter. The study aims to give a sense of the people who live in the area to show their working life, living conditions, health status, political participation, and connection with the city. The resulting emphasis is the need to consider their access to the capabilities to live a decent life in the city and the role of Chandigarh’s plan to provide space for the people without whom the city could not be run as a functioning organism. The study aims to see the consequences of various governmental policy measures in a community’s life. There is a need to balance the economic structure of the informal and the formal sector in the circuit of capital. The research work in village and slums area in city Chandigarh are less if compared to the research work done on slums areas in metropolitan cities hence this thesis work greatly contributes to the academic research work for studying lives of migrant, urban poor and lifestyle of people who live in village exist in Chandigarh.