Bhubaneswar, along with Gandhinagar and Chandigarh are the new planned city just after the independence of India. The rapidly growing city of Bhubaneswar is the earning centre of numerous poor migrants from the rural areas, as well as, from the neighboring states of West Bengal, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. The Bhubaneswar has more than 180 slums pockets and 40 percent of the total population. Saliasahi slum area is the biggest with more than one lakh population. The socio-economic condition of these slum dwellers are poorer as they lack basic services like, water, sanitation, houses, education, public health and so on. In this paper an attempt has been made to assess the reasons for the growth of Saliasahi slum and suggests the remedies for slum development and its up gradation.