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Item Changing Pattern of Socio-cultural Life of Chepang Community: A Case Study of Dahakhani VDC of Chitwan(Department of Nepalese History, Culture and Archaeology, 2015) Karmacharya, RupendraNot availableItem Chepang Community and their Occupational shift: A Case Study of Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-1, Nayagau Makwanpur District(Faculty of Sociology, 2021) Praja, GeetaChepang Community and their Occupational shift is the subject Matter of being concern because no doubt that Nepal very diverse from of various caste, ethnicity and language. Such diversification has been a glory to the country. Every caste has their own social-culture and occupational aspects. Socio-cultural and occupational of any community affects the economy level. Thus the study of socio-economic status of Chepang peoples the general information about overall Chepang. The Chepang people are fully interdependence with other caste people. The socio-economic condition of Chepang is poor than other castes/ethnic groups. Caste-based discrimination and discrimination among religions is gradually decreasing in the society.The study is '' Chepang Community and their Occupational shift '' (A case study ofMakwanpur, Bhimphedi Municipality-1 Nayagau). It has been carried out usingprimary data sources obtained from Chepang Village of Bhimphedi Municipality-1nayagau. I myself belong to Chepang Community so it was a neasy for me to collect data from that community. Chepang people are shy in nature so they don’t easily get friends with stranger, but with me, they easily answered my questions while I was collecting data and information. The specific objectives of study area are: i) To describe a socio-demographic features of Chepangii) To analyze the occupational,change among Chepang community of study area.Descriptive research Design has been adopted for this study and other method of methodology techniques; research Design, data collection and interview, samplingetc. are used. There were 52 household of Chepang community Bhimphedi Municipality- 1 Nayagau, Makwanpur 50 of the total household were selected as sample size. To generate the primary data the structured questionnaire key informant interview and observation limited by simple random sampling from the Chepang households of this municipality only. Majority Chepang people of this municipality depend on agriculture and their in comesources is labor. Though their traditional occupation was hunting and gathering, in today’s modern days Chepang are not going for hunting and gathering. Now it became their hobbies only.Item Demographic, Socio-Economic and Educational Status of Chepang Community(Department of Population Studies, 2017) Khatri, AnjanaThe main purpose of this study was to know the socio- economic and education status of Chepang community. The area of study was purposively selected as the Chepang community of Thakre VDC- wards 4,5,6,8 and 9 of Dhading district including the information of 130 households collected by using census method. The study was based on primary data which was obtained from the head of household of the Chepang community. The information was collected by using structured questionnaires and presented by descriptive approach. Most of the Chepangs were found to have followed agriculture as their principal occupation. 43.8 and 41.4 percent depend on agriculture and daily wages respectively, other people earn their living from small business, own industry and remittance. 48.8 percent Chepangs had their annual income between 10,000-50,000 whereas 33.8 percent households had their annual income between 60,000-1,00,000 and 17.8 percent households had their annual income above 1,00,000. Chepangs prefer nuclear family to joint one. 77.9 percent of Chepang are found to have still following Hindu Religion, 22.1 percent are Christian. The study shows that 27.6 percent of Chepangs people are illiterate can’t even read and write and 61.6 percent are literate but only 7.6 percent of them have got higher education. Awareness of the importance education is increasing in new generations than older ones. School dropout rate in primary level is 33.7 percent and in lower secondary level is 48.1 percent. 3.8 percent don’t want to go to school, 33.7 drop school due to household work, 15.6 percent due to marriage and 16.8 percent stopped going to school as they failed the exam. It is found that Chepang community is socially, economically and educationally back warded. The participation of female is lower in comparison to that of male in educational and socio-economic aspects. Chepangs, still are not able to come in the national mainstream of development mainly due to illiteracy, poor economic condition and social backwardness. Although, they are considered as back warded group by the government, still, no any intensive programmes have not been implemented to raise their living standard. Hence, it can be said that the major factors holding back the development of Chepang community are educational, economic, and social structure.Item Socio-Cultural Change in a Chepang Community : A Sociological Study of the Chepang in Siddhi VDC in Chitwan District(Department of Sociology, 2009) Poudel, Prem PrasadThis study is mainly based on socio-cultural, economic and ecological change of Chepang people.This study shows change in sociallife, cultural traditions(use of natural resources)and economic activities of the Chepangs of Siddhi in last five years. The Chepang are viewed by observing their life cycle ceremonies, feasts and festivals, cultural practices dressing pattern, production and selling craft, source of income,healing practices, education, language, housing pattern in past and present. The current study covers several aspects,focusing on economic,ecological and social cultural changes and problems at Chepang communities. Since the concept of Politico-Economic perspective has been constructed to address the process of development in Chepang societies, it is unsuitable for Chepang Communities,because of primitive economy diverge qualitatively from the economy of complex society.Chepang people are considered as living in unapproachable steeps and hill areas, having therefore experienced less interaction with other peoples. The modernization process has a different meaning among these peoples. It means to raise their economy to subsistence level, including the introduction of a certain amount of technology and the modification of the culture to adopt new economy. The study clearly shows that livelihood security of these people have become precarious due to multiple factors, mainly from the practices of the state not recognizing their traditional rights of using resources for their occupation. These people are basically fisherman,gatherers, swidden cultivators using the forests located in their culturally defined territories. These areas also link to their life as they needed them vi to gather various products required for their religious rituals. But their rights have been curtailed by various resource management policies and regulations of the state. Recently, government started new policy of giving up to a half of the income from the national forest to the people living in the vicinity. Yet there is another serious problem. A large proportion of these people also did not have citizenship. They are also not a ware of the modern system. Now the ownership of land is required to get the citizenship, which is also necessary to get ownership on land,traditional livelihood opportunities have also been declining because of general degradation of natural resources. Over the last 15 years; 90percent household have converted to Christian.Community forest is one of the most successful programmed of the government of Nepal, but there are many conflict in indigenous people (Chepang) are the customary users of Chiuri forest have alienated. This thesis pay special attention on ground reality of Chepang hill sarea, main reasons for underdevelopment,and geographical exclusion.This area has mainly lack of access of public basic services like transportation, communication, employment, health, education and market.This inaccessibility has to lead to capability deprivation among the general mass of Chepang area.This has further led to their exclusion from national social and political arenas.Item Socio-Economic Condition of Chepang Community (A Case Study of Sarikhet Vdc of Makawanpur District)(Department of Rural Development, 2011-09) Sapkota, Amar DipThe research is descriptive and explanatory in nature. The study has assessed the overall status of the Chepangs of Sarikhet VDC, Makawanpur. Interviews were taken with the selected samples of the elderly. An attempt was also made to look into their problems through interactions, and observations the random sampling method was adopted to select the respondents, and they were asked semi-structured questions. The findings taken from the research were interpreted, and recommendations were made accordingly. Chepang have been considered as one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. The census of 2002 has revealed that the population of Chepang is 52,237. The Chepangs have their own language, which belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family. The Chepang language is close to languages of Thami and Hayu. The Chepangs mostly bury their dead body. The dead body is bathed and new clothes and garlands of flower are put on the body and wrapped with burial cloth. A box is made of the barks of sal, in which the dead body is kept and buried. Chepangs are two types, viz Pukunthae and Kachhare. It is a matter of fact that in the past Chepangs were living in isolation and roaming like nomads having no contacts with the outside world. However, with the passage of time they have been improving themselves and developing relationship with other people and have been living in the society. The influence of modernization has less effect on their life. There lies abject poverty among the Chepangs in the study site. Still they rely on wild food to solve their hand to mouth problems. Nearly 42% of the respondents were found married at early age. Similarly, the education level of the respondents was also found very low. About 64.28% of the male respondents were illiterate followed by 83.33% female. Majority of the respondents were found holding agriculture as their major occupation. While assessing the religion of the respondents, about 49% of the respondents were found Hindu, 31% Buddhist and the rest 20% Christians. They were found living with meager income. Very few of the respondents had knowledge of family planning awareness. Similarly, majority of the respondents were found discriminated by the elites giving a loan and exploiting labor, the people of higher castes and some of them were found discriminated on charges of untouchability. Very few of the respondents were found holding sufficient land for food production. The food produced in their land is not sufficient land is not sufficient to run their livelihood even for the period of half a year. Chonam, Dashain, Tihar, Maghesakranti and Saune sanessakranti are the major festivals that are celebrated by the Chepangs. Hence, to overcome the problems of Chepangs and increase their living standard, their indigenous settlement must be protected and secured. Special measures must be adopted by the government to control the out migration of the Chepangs. Similarly, special quota should be allotted for Chepangs in the sectors like education, health, job, etc to increase their living standard and broaden their outlook. Chepangs are still not consulted in decision-making process at the localand national level. Hence, their participation is essential to make any program related to them success. Participatory management approach should be applied in the study site to make any program related to Chepangs a sustainable and durable one