Social Disparity in Drinking Water Facility: An Empirical Analysis

The article makes an attempt to measure the extent of disparity in access to drinking water facility between slum and non-slum households based on both primary and secondary data. There are two levels of analysis; macro and micro level. In the first level, the disparity index reveals that the slum households have to face much hardships in access to adequate drinking water facilities as compared to non-slum households while in the second level, it examines the association between type of households and access to drinking water facility. The regression analysis shows that type of household is one of the most important determinants of access to basic amenities, even among slum households, non-notified slum dwellers have lower probability to access these facilities due to lack of legal recognition. The article suggests that the government should give legal status to non-notified slums to provide water supply infrastructure in non-notified slums.