AREA PROFILE
With a capacity of 9200 households and a population of more than 50,000 individuals, the area is divided into eight blocks namely A, B, C, D, and E., F,G and H. Although, the basic plan for the Colony has been made by the Government, it seems that it would take some time for the Government to put it into action. Provisions and space for constructing Government schools, PHCs, Community Centres, parks etc are there but for most of them are still under construction.

The population from Yamuna Pushta Slums have been relocated and settled mostly in A, B, C and E Blocks. Although, the dwellers were allowed to construct after three months of relocation, it depended on the economic condition of the inhabitant to build a house. Most of the dwellers have still not been able to construct a pucca house. Consequently, the area looks more like a slum rather than a resettlement colony. In fact, it is worse than a slum as the drainage system, water; electricity is mostly non-functional.

Although four years have passed since these area were settled, livelihood is still a matter of great concern as most of the people are semi or unskilled. Since large numbers of people were working as rickshaw pullers, beggars in small establishments in the nearby areas and women as domestic workers in the vicinity in Yamuna Pushta, most of them had no option but to give up their jobs.

Many of the inhabitants continue to work in their earlier place of work. They stay for days together in the area and visit their house only once in a week, as commuting everyday to the work place is a costly affair. Women work as maids in the nearby colonies of Shalimar Bagh etc. as domestic maids and daily travel long distances leaving their young child in the custody of the older sibling who takes care of the all the house chores and the younger one for the entire day.

The average income of the families is quite low, less than 2500 and majority of the families have only one earning member in the house. More than half of this income is spent on commuting to other places of work.

With little facilities of education by the government, enrollment and retention in the mainstream is a challenge. All these conditions, further, expose these children towards the risks of turning them into child labour, which seems inevitable under present circumstances. There is still no proper electricity, drainage and schooling system in all these areas. Although there are Jan Suvidha Kendra (Public Conveniences), charge of Re 1/- on every visit makes the dwellers defecate in open spaces and pavements making the place full of filth and dwellers more prone to risks caused by unsanitary conditions. The drinking water is available only twice a day that too for a limited amount inadequate for the entire population. Safai Karamcharis visit the place only once a week. The systems for disposal of garbage are yet to be put in place. The result is most of drains are blocked for most of the time of the year. Thereby making the entire area extremely unhygienic and prone to diseases.

State of education in the area According to the survey conducted by the organization, it was found that the state of education in the area has gone up tremendously in the last two years owing to the efforts of the organization and the UEE programme in which more than 4000 children have been provided with bridge education.

However, there are still areas, which require attention. The number of children out of school is still more than 2000. The problem of retention in secondary schools is another area of concern. The problem becomes all the more grave due to non-availability of such children in the community as most of these children are going to work outside the community. They are only coming back one in a week or fortnight.

Further, due to absence of schools in the community, drop out rate among children going from class five to six is very high. Although there are three secondary schools in the nearby villages in Bawana but the willingness of parents to send their children to these schools esp girls is not very high. Consequently, it has been observed that more girls drop out than boys after class six.

Bawana Profile at a glance

Total no of Blocks in the community : 8

Blocks	No of households
A	1296
B	1600
C	814
D	1754
E	3768
F	1800
G	403
H	464
TOTAL	11,899

Public Conveniences

Blocks	No
A	1
B	1
C	1
D	3
E	5 ( one is not functional)

Primary School

Blocks	No
B	02
E	03

There is no secondary school in the community as yet. Although there is a provision for constructing two schools in the area

Total number of children enrolled in schools

Blocks	No of students
B-1	526 (257 morning and 269 evening)
B-2	482 (212 morning and 270 evening)
E-3	586 ( 269 morning and 317 evening)
E-4	816 ( 416 morning and 400 evening)
E-5	881 ( 428 morning and 453 evening)
Total	3291