Socio Economic Impact of Remittance in Putha uttarganga Rural Municipality (Ward No 10), East Rukum

Abstract

The studySocio-Economic Impact of Remittance in Putha Uttarganga RuralMunicipality wardno.10, East Rukum tries to assess the social and economicimpact and utilization pattern of remittance in study area. The study is mainly basedon primary data. The primary information was collected through direct personalinterview with remittance receiver family members and focus group discussionstechniques. For this open-ended questionnaire was made. 90 sample households wereselected by purposive sampling method. The households were those from where atleast one family member are working in foreign country or who worked in foreigncountry and have returned as a labor migration. The study shows that remittance has increased their access to education as most ofthem send their children to private school and some has even send their children toforeign country for further study. It has also increased their access to health checkup,brought improvements in sanitation, increased in income, saving and expenditure. Inthe context of utilization pattern, the major bulk of remittance was found used inconsumptionof goods, repayment of loans and for education of their children. Afterexpending in these field, remaining money was found used in unproductive sectorsi.e. land, give loan to others, keep with self, deposit in self-help group and few ofthem were found running a retail shop, tailor and poultry farm. Besides these, somenegative impact were also found. With the receiving of remittance they sooner or latermigrate to urban areas for better life as a result their land remain barren and unused.Remittance has encouraged them to buy necessary goods which they used to producethemselves. Also their involvement in agriculture and animal husbandry was founddecreased due to the shortage of active human resource as most of the youth has goneabroad for work. It means that rural development has negatively impacted. Hence, finally the study concludes that comparatively remittance has brought positiveimpact on socio-economic status of remittance receiving households and mostimportantly remittance was seen as an important financial source for investment inhuman capital i.e. education, health and hygiene.