Changing socio-economic status of Gaine community: A case study of Pokhara-16 Batulechour

Abstract

The study on” Changing socio-economic status of Gaine community” was carried by collecting primary data from the census field survey method from the Gaine community of Pokhara-16 Batulechaur, Kaski district. The broad objective of this study is to find out social and economic status of Gaine community through the administration questionnaire survey to 58 purposively selected households head of the study area. This is the descriptive ethnographic study of Gaine community. It is linked to the cognitive approaches which deal with the folk cultures of the people. The total population of the Gaine in the study area was 296 at the time of survey. Among them 146 were male and 150 were female. According to their older people of Gaine, singing, begging and dancing are their traditional occupation. Nowadays very few persons involve in the traditional occupation. They are slowly giving up their traditional occupation. They are attracted towards the modern occupation. They are greatly influenced by the effect of Urbanization, Migration, Modernization and so on.