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 | ||
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