Socio-Economic and Demographic characteristics of Labour Emigrants (A Case Study of Topgachhiv.D.C. in Jhapa District)

Abstract

This study deals with socio-economic and demographic characteristics oflabour emigrants in Topagarchhi VDC of Jhapa district.There are103 people assample population. The percentage of labour emigration is nearly twenty one(20.98%). Among them,nearly five (4.85) percent are females and remaining aremales. Majority (73.79%) of labour emigrants are married and remaining are single. The level of labour emigration is almost the same in year 062 and 063 butincreases in year 064. There are femaleemigrants also in years 063 and 064. Thepercentage of labour emigration is high in the age group20-34. There are moreemigrants with some secondary (31.1%)followed by completed primary (29.1%)..Thepercentage withsome primaryand no education is 8.8 percent. In occupation, thehighest percentage is48.5percent in agriculture followed bystudy (21.4%) and thelowest percentage is in labour (7.8%).As regards to caste and religion, we can seehighestpercentage is (43.7%) inBrahmin caste and religion Hindu(71.8%)followedby Chhetri (23.3%) and in religion Kirat (12.6%). In the origin,majority (67.7%) ofemigrants earned less thanRs.5000but no one are earning less thanRs.5000 in thedestination. In factmost of theemigrantsearned Rs.10000-25000 in the destination. Majority of family of labour emigrants have the ownership of landbetween 1to 30kattha andonan average,every households have more than 14 kattha landownership. Most of the householdshave ownership of at least one livestock. In thecase of type of the households, 5.6 percent familyhave pakki house, 52.2 percentfamily have ardha-pakki house and 42.2 percent familyhave kachi house. In thestudy area, 54.4 percent family have duel source of drinking water and only 3.3percent haveunsafesource of drinking water. The majority (35.0%) of emigrantshavegone to Qatar followed byK.S.A. and Malaysia (19.4%) andUAE(13.6%).Themajority (27.2%) of emigrants have been sent by Manpower Company. Only a few(9.7%) labouremigrantshave found the work according to their desire. As regards toin the cause of emigration, the largest percentage is 48.5 percentbecause of lowerliving standardfollowed bybusiness failure (9.7%).