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The pace of urbanization and its associated outcomes, in general reflect the state of development of a place. But in reality it mismatches with comprehensive improvement of all sphere of urban life. Many pockets of urban area still represent under standard living that bear the different identity of those urban areas mainly present in developing counties in Asia and Africa. Primarily the diversified opportunities attract a mass amount of people to move into urban areas without having the skill to be involved with right profession. So, the huge populations are unable to get job as per the demand of job market. As a result, a significant percentage of urban populations might select the areas within urban environment where cost of living is comparatively low and try to adjust them with an intention to improve the conditions in near future. Although, unemployment, unhygienic living environment, uncertain job market, low income, stressful life and so on are very common with their day to day life. In spite of that continuously they are trying to change (for betterment of life) the present situate taking various strategies to cope with. It is taking place with consciousness or others. Mainly slum dwellers are the group of people, experiencing this situation. This study is an initiative to measure the degree of coping strategy and its relation with standard of living of the inhabitants over different slums in Midnapore Municipal Area, West Bengal using simple composite index. In order to do the same, all slum neighborhoods have been identified through in-depth field survey with the help of earlier collected slum related information from respective department of municipality of Midnapore town. Relevant questionnaires used to collect the related information from households considering appropriate sampling techniques.
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