Child Marriage on Madeshi Dalits community: A Case Study of Santapurvillagewards, 8 Chandrapurmuniciplity of Rautahat District.

Abstract

A thesis entitled “Child Marriage On Madeshi Dalits Community:A Case Study Of SantapurVillageWard Number, 8, Chandrapur Municipality’’. The general object of the study is to analysis the situation of child marriage of my study areas. The specific objectives of the study are to find out the socio - economic and demographic characteristics of madeshidalits, to explore the hidden causes of child marriage in myresearch areas. It also finds out the consequences of child marriage in theircommunity.This study was conducted in a selected ward number of eight of Chandrapurmunicipality of Rautahat district. It has been conducted on the basis of field surveyapplying exploratory methods in which 62 household and 6 key informants weretaken as sample.This study was based on the primary and secondary data, but focus isgiven to the primary data, which wascollected from the field survey using structurequestionnaire, observation with the different respondent. The secondary data forresearch was collected from the books, published, unpublished document, articlesjournals and internet.From the analysis, it is found that only 33.33 percent of male are educated andlooking to the female only 21.35 % are educated. Large number of peopledoesn’tattendschool in their life and the people who also attend school are leavingschool insecondary level.It alsofindsout the changing patterns of the child marriage from threegeneration. The finding of the study was that peopleare the age more than 60 yearsatpresent timehave married before 10 years. People who are above 40 and below 40years have married above 10years and below 15 likewise people who are the agemore than 25 and less than 40 have married ages between 16-19 years.Only 17.74 %of total household knows the legal age at marriage and 82.26 % don't know the legalage at marriage. Most of the household monthly income is not sufficient forexpenditure and they borrow the money from the landlord. The main causes of earlychild marriage in such community are poverty and social norms cultural and religious,high rate of illiteracy, high rate of poverty, pressure of society and relatives, practiceof Dowry system, insecurity and fears of remaining unmarried etc. Existing viciouscircle of poverty, low literacy rate, high number of population growth, negative 6 impact on mother and children health etc. are majorconsequences of child marriageseen in my research areas.To reduce such married different NGOs and ward office are lunching differentprograms. Plan Nepal Rautahat NGOs andJansewa Nepal Rautahat bal club are thetwo organization actively working on it. From 2075 baishakh 11 with the collaboration of these three sectors i.e.(Ward Office, Jan Nepal And Jansewa Nepal)ward number 8 have been made child marriage prohibited area.Poverty reduction increase literacy rate, women empowerment, and strong implement of laws regarding child marriage can be the effective ways to reduce child marriage.