QUALITY OF URBAN INDOOR ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITION IN AZAMGARH CITY: A CASE STUDY OF AZAMGARH CITY, UTTAR PRADESH

Housing is one of the basic requirements for the survival of human beings. The economic security and social status of a family can be easily understood by watching physical attributes of their housing. Proper urban indoor environment is an indicator of healthy life as well as it also reveals the quality of life and standard of living of the family. Urban indoor environment is strongly related to socio-economic condition. The socio-economic condition shows the level of wellbeing of people of an area. Socio-economically poor households are generally attributed to many housing problems, like congestion, poor sanitation, household garbage and solid waste issue and indoor air pollution. Thus urban indoor environment clearly reveals an image of socio-economic condition of any region. The objective of this paper is to assess the quality of urban indoor environment and socio economic condition in Azamgarh city. The study is based on primary sources of data, collected through a detailed questionnaire. Result shows that the socio-economic condition is better in developed housing areas. The civil line areas of Azamgarh city is well buildup and economically sound. The housing condition of central part is comparatively congested and deteriorating in socio-economic perspective than the northern and southern part. The study has suggested some remedial measures for the improvement of poor housing areas in Azamgarh city.