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Livelihood Essentials for the Charland Children of Sirajganj District in Bangladesh

Shammy Islam
Lecturer
Department of Sociology Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The paper is wedded to focus on livelihood essentials for the charland children of Char Chhinna in the Jamuna riverine ecosystem of Bangladesh. Their subsistence is destroyed annually by and riverbank erosion displacement. This terrible condition affects their own habitat and pushes them into the world of uncertain poverty. They are impelled to find shelters under their neighbours’ and/or relatives’ houses. The riverbank erosion displacement exercises detrimental effects on the total development and primary socialization of charland children in different forms. The paper is primarily based on the data gathered through direct interviewing with the purposively chosen charland children and household heads of the study village, observation, focus group discussions (FGDs), case studies, and informal interviews with some stakeholders. Both the qualitative interpretation and quantitative measurement of social reality are considered to be reciprocally focused here. For analysing the unit of this study, the primary and empirical sources of data are exclusively utilized. Due to riverbank erosion displacement the world of uncertainties that charland children have to face economic insecurities, social insecurities, health insecurities, deprivation of civic rights and the like. A number of suggestive policy measures for sustainable rural development are formulated based on findings as the final job of this research.

Keywords: Riverbank erosion displacement, Uthuli children, Chukani children, Livelihood essentials

Location: Sirajganj District in Bangladesh

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Livelihood

Objectives:

All that economic insecurities due to low familial income, erosion of capital, increase of indebtedness, social insecurities, deprivation of civic rights, inadequate parental care in some cases, lack of peer interaction, health insecurities due to lack of access to health services, lack of infrastructure of health services, lack of health education and hygienic awareness, no schooling, lack of recreation, malnutrition, unhygienic sanitation, unsafe drinking water and all uncertainties leads to deleterious effects on the otal development and primary socialization of uthuli1 and chukani2 charland3 children in various forms that is extremely depressing for our nation. Thus, the study examines the livelihood essentials for the uthuli and chukani children of Char Chhinna village annually affected and displaced by riverbank erosion damage of Jamuna River.

Methodology:

The paper is based on the findings of MSS thesis (Islam, 2016) of the author. Char Chhinna is a medium sized village of Monsurnagar Union under Kazipur Upazila of Sirajganj District in north-western Bangladesh. Kazipur upazila is one of the most erosion-prone areas of the Jamuna River and thus the charland village Char Chhinna of Kazipur Upazila is selected purposively as study locale. The present study adopted two principal techniques of social survey method - questionnaire and interviewing- for collecting the primary and empirical data. The paper is primarily based on the data gathered through direct interviewing with the purposively chosen 230 charland children and 110 uthuli and chukani household heads from 110 displacee households whereas uthuli household is 41 and uthuli children is 95 on the other hand chukani household is 69 and chukani children is 135 and their age category is 5 to 15 of the study village. In addition to social survey, the research collected data through conducting 1 focus group discussions (FGDs), observation, and 5 case studies of selected respondents. A total of 2 informal interviews with the Monsurnagar Union Parishad leaders and community members are incorporated in this research for gathering more empirical data. The data collected and analyzed in this research are qualitative and quantitative in nature. Both the qualitative interpretation and quantitative measurement are considered reciprocally in analyzing the social reality of devastated charland livelihood caused by flood and riverbank erosion displacement the uthuli and chukani displacees have to face and to cope with. Both the qualitative interpretation and quantitative measurement of social reality are considered to be reciprocally focused here. For analyzing the unit of this study, the primary and empirical sources of data are exclusively utilized. The collected data throughout the fieldwork are analyzed in descriptive and qualitative manner. The study is aptly intended to establish the analytical and critical evaluation of the collected data. In addition to the qualitative data, the quantitative data are classified in simple and cross tables. These tables are prepared in order to show frequencies and percentages.

Source of Information: Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education Volume 29, No. 1&2, 2017: 33-40 ISSN 1011-3916

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Achievement/Findings:

The present study attests an insecure social reality that the overall scenario of riverbank erosion displacement impact on the aforementioned charland people is very disheartening. Such environmental disaster intermittently causes terrifying and perilous social reality for the total development of uthuli and chukani household in different forms. Due to the devastating damag of riverbank erosion displacement all uthuli and chukani families have to face the hardship of economic, social insecurities. All the insecurities caused by riverbank erosion displacement leads to deprivation, destitution, hardship, impoverishment, and more vulnerability of the uthuli and chukani families. In this situation, the displacee parents are compelled to employ their children in various income earning jobs and various household chores for maintaining their familial survival. This involvement prevents them from attending all important stages and from enjoying privileges and supports required for child development. They are deprived of playing games, recreations, schooling, healthcare, and protection from violence. Inadequate food taking, heath hazard, irregular schooling or dropout from schooling of uthuli and chukani children are the regular image of Char Chhinna village which affect their childhood and primary socialization in expected manner. As the riverbank erosion displacement is one of major disasters in Bangladesh, comprehensive riverbank erosion preventive management policy should be made at national level and be operated at respective local level. The relief and rehabilitation for the uthuli and chukani displacees should be pressed into service. The government should be provided emergency financial supports with the displacees in the immediacy of riverbank erosion displacement. The GOs and NGOs should introduce education insurance, and health insurance schemes for the uthuli and chukani children. The GOs and NGOs should create various income generation activities (IGAs) for the displacee parents so that they can earn more that their present irregular scanty income. The interest-free and/or minimal interest-based micro-credits and required trainings should be provided with the displacees in continuing their IGAs. Their economic solvency enables them to withdraw their children from the participation in odd income earning activities that prevents their schooling and also basic needs.

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