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Item Child Loss Experience Among Women in Dalit and Non-Dalit Communities in Pachanali VDC Doti(Department of Population Studies, 2012) Bhatta, PavitraThis study entitled Child Loss Experience among Women in Dalit and non-Dalit community of Pachanali VDC Doti District is based on the primary data collected in married women who have one child birth. The objective of the study was to assess the status of child loss experience by social, economic and demographic variables. Primary data was collected from 170 households with eligible women in 15-49 years of age, who had a one child birth. Among them each of the Dalit and non Dalit group consisted of 85 respondents. This study examined causal effects of variables like social,demographic, economic. Collected data were coded, recoded and tabulated. Lastly with the help of SPSS find the relationship between and among variables. The major conclusions are: Dalit community had high child loss experience comparedto the non Dalit community. Likewise high number of educational status showed less number of child loss experience. In rich family there were no child loss experiences among 170 respondents. Respondents who had property in their own name had also less number of child loss experience. The chhaupadi tradition had positive relationship with child loss experience in Dalit and non-Dalit community.Item The Nature and Causes of Rural Poverty (A Case Study of Dalit Community of Chiuridanda V.D.C., Khotang District)(Department of Rural Development, 2009) Bhattarai, Parshu RamPoverty is very complex. The phenomenon of poverty is an old as the human society. Poverty is lack of basic needs, food, clothing, housing clean water health services etc. It is multifaceted in feature. Poverty is as old as human civilization. Dalit is one of the largest community of Nepal. Agriculture is the backbone of our country and dalits are extremely depended on this sector and spread all over the country. A sample of 60 households are taken out of total 103 households for the study. The head of households were interviewed to examine the source of income, expenditure of their respondents. Poverty is highly correlated with source of income, size of landholding, educational level, main occupation, employment family size. General objective of the study is to assess the nature of rural poverty in Chiuridanda VDC of Khotang district. However, the specific objectives, were : a) To examine the rural poverty of dalit community. b) To analyze the relationship between poverty and other factors employment, education and land holding. c) To find out the causes of poverty and suggest appropriate policy measures to reduce poverty. The methodology of data collection consisted to personal level interviews with prepared mixed questionnaires schedule. The sample households were taken from stratified random sampling. Sixty households survey data and some secondary data are used for the analysis and discussion. The study had showed that out of the total households taken in case study 66.66 percent is joint family and agriculture being main occupation 71.66 percent is the major economic characteristics of the study area. Similarly this study had drawn out that 53 percent (0.5 - 5 ropani) occupied small landholding size which is insufficient in comparison to their family structure. In respect to Dalits 58.28 percent of the total study area occupied in which is was found that majority were i.e. 61.67 percent illiterate. They are engaging the majority i.e. 90 percent were engaged in traditional pattern of agriculture activities. Dalit people went to abroad for selling labor, children deprived from good education, poor health, unemployment indebtedness and social discrimination. To alleviate poverty from study area. Farming system should be improved alternative employment opportunities should be created, knowledge of family planning skill development programmes, discouragement of bad habits should be increased.Item Social Challenges of Dalit Community (A Case study of Rajhena VDC, Banke)(Department of Rural Development, 2009) Jaisi, Jaya RajThe study was carried out at Rajhena VDC of Banke district. It is located at the central northern part of the Banke district. The research was aimed at studying at various socio-economic aspects of Dalits. Basically this study has been focused on social challenges of Dalits in economic, educational, health, hygiene, social discrimination and related to social movement of Dalits. The objectives of this study is i) To identify the income sources for livelihood of Damai, Kami and Sarki ii) To examine the factors of the social discrimination against the Dalits iii) To identify the status of the Dalits communities in education, health and hygiene sector iv) To suggest programmatic policy measures for the upliftment of the Dalit communities This study is based on social science methodology. The primary data were collected from field visit and secondary data were collected from various official sources and publications. The research design of this study is descriptive, analytical as well as exploratory. The sample size was determined by using simple random sampling. The sample size was 40 households from three wards, 2, 3 and 8 respectively. To collect the data, household survey, interview method, key informants interview and focus group discussion were made. The gathered data were analyzed and described through tabulation, percentage distribution in descriptive and analytical methods. Qualitative and quantitative data were presented as need to meet the objective. In the context of Dalit of Nepal, Dalits are categorized: one is politically coined and second is untouchable. Social condition of Dalits in Nepal is very poor condition where they do not have basic rights though their demographic number is in 2.6 million. Education condition is also very low, only 22.8 percent Dalits were literate. Caste based discrimination in the western part of Nepal is higher than the eastern part of Nepal. Among them women are highly exploited than men. Economic condition is also not left behind from the context of Dalits. Most of them were employed as a labour ,construction works etc. Life expectancy of Dalit is 50.8 years at national level in the political participation is in significant with the population size of Nepal. Land distribution among the Dalits is not well condition because most of the do not have their own land and the land which they have is not certificated and whatever they have, this land is not productive. In the one hand they are suffering from the land less problem and the other side they have low productivity problem.. Because of this they have been adopting their alternative occupation for sustainability. There are all together 8 caste groups in the Rajhena VDC. Male population is higher than the female population. Most of the Dalits have quitted their traditional work because of low market work. Most of Dalit families live in joint family where no facilities and very few people have been supporting for the large number of family members. Their sources of income are not supportive for their livelihood in this Rajhena VDC because they do not get work whole year. Their works are seasonal only. Their health, hygiene, education etc. are very poor. In comparison others, they do not have well condition of social status and other opportunities. in the participation field, they have given opportunities but not from the very beginning of work. They have to do only physical work rather than decision making works. NGOs and INGOs are also established to promote their life but most of them are centralized at the facilated places. They are not reached at them. Social discrimination is in the apex point where no one has given opportunity to enter inside the temple. Feeling towards untouchability is also very high. Now a days they are discriminated from three sides: Maoist, arm force and so called upper caste group. They do not raise their voices against to them because no one has listened to them. Who makes any complain to this person, either leave this village or suffer from them. Only one satisfactory situation is that they have the trend of sending their babies to the school for education but all most of them do not get opportunity to study for secondary level. They are also very committed on their tradition and culture. All the rite and rituals were made by them on the basis of their cultures which were followed by their ancestors.