Group Members : Lok Raj Paneru Ramesh Pant

Sunita Upadhaya Mina khadka Anjali Joshi Alita Shahi

Leeladhar Joshi

Case study of the Rickshaw puller in Dhangadhi

municipalitySubmitted to

Kailali multiple campus

ContentsIntroductionObjectives of the studyImportance of the studyRational of the studyLimitation of the studyData and Methodology Rickshaw pullers previous occupation (Pie chart)Rickshaw puller by Religion/Class, Caste, Age, Marital Status

Rickshaw puller by level of education, Income Major problems under following aspect Study AreaChallenges Faced by the Rickshaw Puller Summary, Conclusion and SuggestionConclusion of Assignment

Acknowledgement First of all our group wants to thanks to our

respected teacher Tilak Bom for providing such a

opportunity and a golden chance to deliver about

case study related to the condition of Rickshaw

puller in Dhangadhi municipality. We are grateful

to some of the Rickshaw puller brothers for

providing the relevant information regarding to

their works, without this information the case

study is not possible.

Introduction Rickshaw is a familiar means of transport for short distance in the

dhangadhi municipality which is livelihood for rural immigrates. The work was conducted to analysis the socio- economic

conditions of rickshaw pullers with objectives to assess the arrival and previous occupations, To examine age group, marital status, religion, and caste and analyze education level, major habits, residential conditions, facilities of rickshaw pullers in municipality area.

Data were collected through case study in 2070/11/10 from functions of the area, i.e. , residential area, sub-urban area too.

The rickshaw puller community was migrated, illiterate and poor rural people in majority who spent their nights in poor dwelling where civil amenities and facilities were absent or poor.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY Taking into consideration the significance of rickshaw pulling

in socio-economic lives of people at grass roots level, the study was undertaken in dhangadhi municipality with the following objectives.

To assess the arrival and previous occupations of the people who engaged in rickshaw pulling.

To know direct condition, status and livelihood of their family.To determine the health condition in daily life while in job.To find out the customer satisfation to his service.To examine age group, marital status, religion, and caste of

rickshaw pullers and so on.To analyze education level, major habits, residential

conditions, basic services and facilities of rickshaw pullers in dhangadhi city.

Importance to study To know the direct picture of rickshaw puller

with its condition.To analyze education level, major habits,

residential conditions, basic services and facilities of rickshaw pullers in dhangadhi city.

Rational of the studyThere are many obstacles in human beings

life to earn their livelihood. On the same way rickshaw pullers also faced to the many challenges in their daily life

For instance they have to be give continue on their works in order to leave the passenger in right place in right time and order.

Limitation of the studyThere always occurs many problem in the

way of any work . So we had also many limitation during the case study of the Rickshaw puller in circle of Dhangadhi municipality, direct form the rickshaw pullers.

DATA AND METHODOLOGYThe entire study is based on primary data, regarding the

socio-economic conditions of rickshaw pullers. It was generated through group study in 2070/11/10.. On the basis of stratified random sampling, 4 rickshaw

pullers randomly were selected and interviewed for detail information regarding their socio-economic conditions.

The direct questionnaire method was used to gather information from the respondents. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed with the simple statistical technique.

Maps and diagrams were prepared to represent the findings.

Rickshaw pullers by previous occupation The previous occupation is one of the

important indicators for analysis of socio-economic conditions of rickshaw pullers. Given fig. depicts that

25% rickshaw pullers were agricultural labourers,

20% followed by non-workers, 18% Farmers , and 11% construction labourers, 10% Textile Industry workers 7 % household, 4% hotel-restaurant workers, 3 % Sweepers and 2 % other workers. The proportion of agricultural

labourers was high due to not availability work for all seasons of the year in agriculture. However, among the rickshaw pullers 18% were engaged previously in agriculture as farmers due to less income, over crowding, high input cost and less output forced them to earn their supplement income by rickshaw pulling.

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fig 1: Rickshaw pullers by previous occupation

agricultaral labour

Non-workers

Farmers

construction Labour

Textile in-dustries workerHousehold

Hotel Restaurant worker Swipper

other workers

Rickshaw pullers by caste The caste system, with its societal

stratification and social restrictions continues are major impact on Dhangadhi social set. Given diagram reveals rickshaw pullers by caste

56% from the backward castes , 37% followed by general caste,7% from the schedule caste category

and 10% from the others The rickshaw pullers belonged to

backward caste, majority of them were from the lower caste. They were in more miserable conditions than that of schedule caste people .

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No. of Group

Rickshaw pullers by religion Religion is vital factor as far as socio-

economic condition of such backward community is concerned because almost all the decisions of a person are determined by the religion.

Rickshaw puller Religion belonged to: 60% from the Hindu community 40% from the Christian religion. 5% from the Muslim to pulling service. 15% from the others religions High engagement of Hindu refers to

their unemployment and poverty, However, Christian and others is

considered to be comparatively less than Muslim religion even though the city is highly sensitive.

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Bardiagram

Religion

No. of Religion

Rickshaw pullers by ageFig shows that 69%

rickshaw pullers were is below the age of 45 years because this occupation needs more physical labour and insecure for after an age so a large number of migrated jobless young people joined the profession to earn livelihood. However, those pullers are above the 55 years they were in lesser.

Rickshaw pullers by marital status Marriage determines the reliability and

stability social life. Fig shows that share of married

rickshaw pullers was 70%, followed by unmarried (28%), widower/divorced (2%) respectively. Marriage is one of the pull factors those force unskilled worker to fill daily needs of the wife and children as rickshaw pulling provides more easily cash. However, a segment of them was as forced bachelor because they left their wives and children at the origin places and arrived to earn income. Similarly, due to poor socio- economic conditions and to earn the livelihood a chunk of population was single; they also left the country (native places) to earn money.

Rickshaw pullers by level of education Level of education indicates the degree of

social development. Table explains that illiteracy was common in

the rickshaw pullers’ community 74% falls under the group of Illiterate

whereas 26% is literate , So on 14 % were on Primary level of education 11% Middle level of education 1% only from the high School level of

education Most of them got primary or upper primary

level of education. It was found that rickshaw pullers were extremely backward regarding education. It was due to lower income, poverty, and lack of proper accessibility of the educational institutions and prevailing thinking about education as they considered to expense for education is unfruitful.

Education level

In Percent

Illiterate 74

Primary 14

Middle 11

High School

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Rickshaw pullers by incomeHere given fig. depicts level of

income of rickshaw pullers that majority of them

67% earned less than 2500 rupees per month; earning range 20% rickshaw was Rs 2500-3000 per month

while 13% earned monthly more than 3000 rupees. The rickshaw pullers who had contract with schools or parents of school going children, they belonged to permanent or fixed source of income and got more income. While other fixed sources were daily office workers particularly ladies, they use hired rickshaw on monthly contract.

Rickshaw Puller major problems under following aspects Social:

Mobile habit and homelessness Lack of homogenous culture Largely from socially and economically backward castes Low occupational status Feeling of hopelessness and lack of confidence Lack of guidance and social isolation

Personal: Low levels of literacy Lack of awareness No personal identity documents in migrated place (Dhangadhi) No proof of address in Dhangadhi No personal identity documents at place of origin for 50% of

sample, as well as no banking history Lack of time due to nature of livelihood Feeling of being excluded Low financial literacy related self-exclusion from accessing

banking services

Economic: Low, irregular and unpredictable income streams Landlessness No or low asset base Low value cash savings and high volume of transactions Lack of financial literacy Lack of awareness about the benefits of savings in a

bank account Lack of awareness about „No Frills Account‟ program

Market/systemic: Lack of access to formal services Lack of suitable places to keep savings Exclusion due to Know Your Customer norms

Study Area Dhangadhi city was selected as study area

keeping the view of its location in proposed extensional city of Kailali district of far western development region. Mainly the rickshaw puller of chauraha were taken as area of study. The city contains many small and light industries, i.e., textile , edible oils factories, dairy farms, . But the city is still lacking a well connected city transport. So, rickshaw always is demanded as a means of transportation for shorter distance.

Challenges faced by the Rickshaw puller Affected by the Nagar busExpensive fairUnfavorable climatic condition effect working life.Indifferent attitude for general people.Sense of biasness Problem of managed road(muddy, gravel,etc)Problem of over bargaining between passengers

and rickshaw puller. Unmanaged parking for Rickshaw stand. Competition among the pullers and time of the

day.

Summary conclusion and suggestion Throught the point from Campus road to

Chauraha of dhangadhi muncipality we study biograph of rickshaw puller daily life. We had gained many question to raise to them with detail reply from and so on we had achieved the knowledge to learn the case study.

However it was impossible of getting true information but we try our best as we can.

Transportation facilities has gained the new dimension in the recent years and passed through the different stages of comfort means of transportation

As a whole Rickshaw union had cooperate

with us. They had provided all the required information regarding to their daily life status phenomena in order to earn their livelihood.

Although they work hard to generate income but there unware about saving for future reference and so on.

Conclusion of Assignment

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