Chepang Community and their Occupational shift: A Case Study of Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-1, Nayagau Makwanpur District

Abstract

Chepang Community and their Occupational shift 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 Chepang peoples the general information about overall Chepang. The Chepang people are fully interdependence with other caste people. The socio-economic condition of Chepang is poor than other castes/ethnic groups. Caste-based discrimination and discrimination among religions is gradually decreasing in the society.The study is '' Chepang Community and their Occupational shift '' (A case study ofMakwanpur, Bhimphedi Municipality-1 Nayagau). It has been carried out usingprimary data sources obtained from Chepang Village of Bhimphedi Municipality-1nayagau. I myself belong to Chepang Community so it was a neasy for me to collect data from that community. Chepang people are shy in nature so they don’t easily get friends with stranger, but with me, they easily answered my questions while I was collecting data and information. The specific objectives of study area are: i) To describe a socio-demographic features of Chepangii) To analyze the occupational,change among Chepang community of study area.Descriptive research Design has been adopted for this study and other method of methodology techniques; research Design, data collection and interview, samplingetc. are used. There were 52 household of Chepang community Bhimphedi Municipality- 1 Nayagau, Makwanpur 50 of the total household were selected as sample size. To generate the primary data the structured questionnaire key informant interview and observation limited by simple random sampling from the Chepang households of this municipality only. Majority Chepang people of this municipality depend on agriculture and their in comesources is labor. Though their traditional occupation was hunting and gathering, in today’s modern days Chepang are not going for hunting and gathering. Now it became their hobbies only.