Housing Condition, Family Type and Family Size of Some Surveyed Scheduled Castes Villages of Dhubri District of Assam
- March 27, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Economics, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue III, March 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705
Dr. Manoranjan Roy
Assistant Prof. In Economic, Bilasipara College, Dhubri, Assam, India
Abstract: In Assam, majority of the Scheduled Castes people live in villages, a small proportion of them are in towns. For centuries these depressed classes have been denied basic civic rights. The life of these people is miserable and unhygienic. The environment of these people is in no way conducive to the achievement of better standards of life. The backwardness of the Scheduled Castes people has historical, social and political roots. Poverty, lack of educational facilities, discrimination, inability to enter government services and other lucrative jobs have all contributed to their backwardness. The socio-economic condition of the Scheduled Castes people of Dhubri district reveals a disheartening picture. Illiteracy and population growth is very high among them. They consider their children as the gift of God. They do not understand the effect of large family on the income of the family. People belonging to this community are ignorant about biology of reproduction, need of birth control and devices of birth control. They consider family planning programme to be curse, as according to them this is against the God’s will. As a result, they create large number of births whose ultimate result is wide spread poverty. The objective of the study is to study the housing condition and family pattern of the Scheduled Castes people of Dhubri district of Assam and to suggest remedial measures for improving their quality of life on the basis of the findings. The methodology of the study will be based upon mainly the primary data which will be collected from the field survey.
Key Words: housing, family, people, size, scheduled castes, life, etc.
I. INTRODUCTION
Family is a basic social organization which directly or indirectly influences the economic condition and demographic behaviuor of the couples. In Indian society there are two types of families. One is joint family and another is nuclear family. The normative pattern of family in India is an extended family or joint type where more than one married couples live together in a dwelling. A nuclear family, on the other hand, comprises of a man, his wife and his unmarried children and in a few instances one or more such persons as widowed mother, father or sister.
