Assessment of basic needs of food and clothing of urban homeless people in Kanpur city, India

Rok, strany: 2016, 261 - 280

The article analyses the condition of food, clothing and other supportive aids of the homeless population of Kanpur city. The study is based on a primary source of data generated through a comprehensive field survey in the city in 2012. Overall analysis of the study reveals that more than three-quarters of the expenditure of the homeless po-pulation is on food, followed by the expenditure on miscellaneous things like clothing, health care, and education. The majority of homeless people fulfill their food requirements by purchasing cooked food or self-cooked food from the city while the rest of the population survives on foraging. Moreover, nearly two-thirds of the total homeless population have two meals per day, while more than one-tenth of the homeless population is unable to secure even a single meal per day. More than half of the homeless population possess only one set of wearing clothes, whereas about two-fifths of the homeless people have two sets.

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Shamshad, . 2016. Assessment of basic needs of food and clothing of urban homeless people in Kanpur city, India. In Geografický časopis, vol. 68, no.3, pp. 261-280. 0016-7193.

APA:

Shamshad, . (2016). Assessment of basic needs of food and clothing of urban homeless people in Kanpur city, India. Geografický časopis, 68(3), 261-280. 0016-7193.