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Item Reintegration of Street Children within the Community after the Vocational Training, Studying At Voice Of Children Lubhu, Lalitpur(Department of Sociology, 2018) Karki, RojinaN/AItem Situational Analysis of Street Children In Kathmandu(Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2013) K.C., PrayashaNot AvailableItem Socio-Economic Study of Street Children (A Case Study of Ratna Park Area, Kathmandu)(Department of Rural Development, 2008) Subedi, KamalaThe present study entitled Socio-economic Study of Street Children is intendedto find out the major problems of street children and their wages of solution ofKathmandu. The study was conducted within the specially limited area of Ratna Parkand its surrounding areas of Kathmandu. The study was undertaken with the followingproblems: The children of the street are also growing day by day with the increase withtheir problems. The most important problems of street are scarcity and lack of security,education, food, shelter etc. They are exposed to dangerous chemical in the garbageterms and suffered from cronies' illness and infected wounds. The worst from ofproblems of the street children in our society for it treats the street children differentlyand people looks by the eye of heat and calledthem as "KHATE". In the period of research study, there is finding such objectives, as given: to analyze thesocio-economic status of street children in the study area, to identify the majorproblems of the street children, to examine in the cause to increase in numbers of streetchildren, to analyze the Institutional policies and programs on child labor. Interview questionnaire methods and case study methods are used to find out reality ofstreet children on such as their base. The major findings of thestudy are: majority ofstreet were illiterate, No more than 6 percent could cross the primary level, about 72percent were from the age group of 9 to 16. The dominant cause to be illiterate waspoverty. Most of street children were engaged in rack-picking,which was 34.28 percentof total respondents. Remaining 28.57 percent were engaged in begging. In case ofgirls, they were mainly found in domestic work. Most of the street children werepassing their aimlessness lives. They didn't know what will be in future! However therights of child shouldn't undermine by the powerful and responsible authority. Each ofthem must be dedicated for the control and removal of street children and theirburning problems. On the basis of various related literature and direct field survey with street childrenwhat it can conclude that the children in the street have gradual deteriorating socio-physical conditions with numbers of hurdles due to which they are passing aimless andminimize the number is by increasing social awareness.Item A Socio-Economic Study of Street Children in Nepal(A Case study of Kalanki Area)(Department of Sociology/Anthropology, 2011) Sigdel, NarayaniNot availableItem Street Children in Kathmandu Metropolitan City: Problems and Prospects(Department of Sociology, 2008) Buddhacharya, SumitaNot availableItem Street Children of Kathmandu Metropolitan City: A Sociological Study(Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2013) Thapa, Sushrut KumarNot AvailableItem Study of Street Children (A Case Study of Ratnapark Area) Kathmandu, Nepal(Department of Rural Development, 2011) Paudeyal, NirajanThe problem of street children is universal phenomenon. It is comparatively very high in those countries where there is rapid growth of urbanization. The number of street children has grown in recent decades because of widespread recession, political turmoil, civil unrest, increasing family disintegration, natural disaster, and growing urbanization. The street children could be orphaned or abandoned children or simply neglected or runways. They could be with or without family. They are also termed as community children. Because of the various reasons such as family causes, social causes, economic causes, political causes that force them to be in the street. During the research, 50 samples from Ratnapark area were taken along with semi observation technique to acquire relevant information and data. Secondary data from social workers and NGOs are used significantly. Majority of the street children aged between 9 to 13 years are migrating to Kathmandu for survival and being street children. The highest number of the street children was found from Brahmin/Chhetri family and rest of them were from privilege groups like Tamang, Newar, Sherpa etc. The literacy status of the respondents is low. Most of them dropped out school due to economic crisis in family and not paid school fee. Many children do have homes and parents. Even do, they are in the street because most of the parents are alcoholic, economic crisis in family, for searching jobs in Kathmandu, city attraction from their friends, etc. It was observed that extreme household poverty is the contributing factor for migration of children and engaging in street work. Street children were involved in different economic activities such as rag picking, begging, hotel, tempo/micro bus conductor, domestic work etc. Those children who feel bad with their jobs, they get inhuman treatment from their employers and have not secured in the street. Being risky and hazardous work for children they encounter with various injuries/accidents and illness during working period. But, they are not provided medical expenses. On the other hand, they are extremely harassed and abused by adults. Mostly they use drugs just for relax. They need more freedom and forget any kind of problem. But some children use drugs for killing sadness and fear. They use when they have to involve in crime, stealing and pick pocketing jobs. Almost all children want to leave drugs to fulfill their future plan and for betterment of their life.