Activities of Department of History

Title: - The Sociology of Health Among the People of the Three Villages-2 No.Gosain Gaon, Banaria Mishing Gaon , Kumarbheti of the Kawoimaree Revenue Village (Teok Revenue Circle-Jorhat)(2019)
Start Date - 2019-04-01   End Date - 2019-08-31   Duration - 150 days.
Nature of the Activity: - Research Project
Summary: -
A Department Research Project was done on the topic 'The Sociology of the Health Among the People of the Three Villages- 2 no. Gosain Gaon, Banaria Mishing Gaon, Kumarbheti of the Kaoimaree Revenue Village (Teok Revenue Circle- Jorhat)' was done by Dr. Bikash Nath who is one of the faculty member of the department and presently the head of the department.

In our research project particularly centered around the sociology of health in the three villages (2 No. Gosain Gaon,Banaria Mishing Gaon and Kumarbheti )of the Kawoimaree Revenue Village under the Teok Revenue Circle of the Jorhat district. We tried to make study about the sociological aspects of health where the issues of the right to proper health care as well as the how far the basic pattern of living could determine the capabilities of the people in terms of better democratic cum welfare measures. What we gathered primary information regarding the actual conditions of the people of those three villages is that the majority of the population have been living under the poverty line and there figure would be 90% and they have no economic avenues besides the cultivation and working as the wage labourer in the nearby town (Teok). The area under study is heavily flood affected and if the flood comes there the paddy cultivation is totally damaged and again they have to make efforts for their primary occupation .The peculiar fact is that the majority of the people between the age group 18-60 are remained at the state of unemployment and in fact there are hardly any vocational institutes in the neighbouring for developing their skills. Another important feature of those people of the three villages is that the majority of the population have no land rights over their cultivating field and they are in a sense landless and that is one of the major causes of their deplorable economic and social status.Only recently out of the total population of the 1964 ,the government has distributed land pattas to the 49 people of those three villages. The bulk of the people is comprised of the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe groups and that also could signify their low social position in the hierarchy of the caste based social system. It has also been observed that the conditions of landlessness among the villagers have led to the increasing rate of crime in the locality .The literacy rate is quite impressive in the three villages and in the 2 No,Gosain Gaon it is 99%, in the Banaria Mishing Gaon it is 92% and in Kumarbheti it is 82% respectively.  The total number of education institutions up to secondary level are eight and there six Angwanwadi centres. The total number of persons engaged in jobs  are 110  in the three villages .The water pump is not working and also the lack of proper infrastructure in those villages where the villagers have to live in simple mud buildings without any proper hygiene and the Banaria Mishing Gaon that problem is highly serious because they have been living in their traditional chang ghar but not maintaining any basic hygiene .There is only one sub centre with a CHO and two other nurses and one MPW but the fact is that the CHO has joined in her service only in 2018 and before that there was hardly any regular health governance and infrastructure in the area under study.There is a hospital building with facilities of some specific beds but still it has been left unused and so the poor villagers have to go for the Teok FRU which is eleven kilometers in distance from those villages. There is a serious lack of basic maintenance of health measures due to the improper sociological hiatus in terms of implementation of the egalitarian principles of livelihood and proper democratic –welfare aspects.Through the scientific and organized methods of securing the ethical and normative standard of living with proper mechanism of strengthening the capabilities of the people there is the great potential of contribution of those people to the culture and polity of our nation.