Occupational Pattern Change of Dalit People: A Case Study on Soyang VDC of Ilam District

Abstract

The Occupational Change of the Dalit People 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 Dalie peoples the general information about overall Dalit. The Dalit people are fully interdependence with other caste people. The socio-economic condition of Dalit is poor than other castes/ethnic groups.Caste-based discrimination and discrimination among religions is gradually decreasing in the society. The study is ''Occupational change of Dalit People'' (A case study on Kamiand Damai Community in Soyang VDC-9 in Ilam District). It has been carried out using primary data sources obtained from Dalit people settlement area of Soyang VDC Ilam.The general objective of this study are aisto find out the occupational change of Dalit community Soyang VDCin Ilam District. The specific objectives of study area are: i) To Introduce ofDalit in the study area.ii) To study the social aspect of Dalit.iii)To describethe occupational aspect of Dalit. And. iv) TO analyze the occupationalconditionof Dalit. Descriptive research Design has been adopted for this study and othermethod of methodology techniques, research Design, data collection and interview, sampling etc are used. There were 60 household of Dalit community Soyang DVC Ilam. 20 of the total household were selected as sample size. To generate the primary data the structured questionnaire key informant interview and observation also limited by simple random sampling from the Dalit household of this VDC only. Large No of Dalit people of this VDC is Poor, Socio-economic and cultural status also poor. The economic condition of Dalit of this study area is not modernized and it is going to traditional way. So, the situation of traditional leather-based occupational is in decreasing sage. Socially Dalit people of this study area are deprived because they havetraditional belief towards untouchables where 73.33% were favour in this view and only 26.76 were aware about it. Educational status of Dalit is also not good only 32.96 the total is literate and 56.06 majority of the population was illiterate. Their traditional agriculture system and on unskilled leather-based indigenous occupation had not sufficient for sustain. 66.00% of the respondent prefers new occupation.Their economic status is that for the higher earnings of the income only. They had high expenditure in comparison of their income level so, saving condition is very poor.