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Slums are the areas where lack of basic infrastructures, skills, hygiene, health, education and income sources to good living condition. Rapid urbanization and failure of governance are the key reasons of developing slums. Slum dwellers play very important role in the city development directly or indirectly. With this point of view, it is very important to study and identify the solution for slum improvement. This research is an attempt to demonstrate the issues of slums and to extent appropriate options of slum improvement. The aim of this Thesis is to improve infrastructure for the slum dwellers of Gwalior City. For this, firstly study the city slum profile then examine the schemes / projects through which institutions are taking initiatives in infrastructure development for the Gwalior slum dwellers. Next assessing the status of infrastructure in the selected slum areas by primary survey and secondary data collection also study the characteristics of slum dwellers and capture the community perception of selected slums. Finally, national and international case studies were done to understand the effective ways to reduce the issues, which helps in formulating the planning strategies for better living conditions by improving infrastructure in slums.