Housing Condition, Family Type and Family Size of Some Surveyed Scheduled Castes Villages of Dhubri District of Assam

In Assam, majority of the Scheduled Castes people live in villages, a small proportion of them are in towns. For centuries these depressed classes have been denied basic civic rights. The life of these people is miserable and unhygienic. The environment of these people is in no way conducive to the achievement of better standards of life. The backwardness of the Scheduled Castes people has historical, social and political roots. Poverty, lack of educational facilities, discrimination, inability to enter government services and other lucrative jobs have all contributed to their backwardness. The socio-economic condition of the Scheduled Castes people of Dhubri district reveals a disheartening picture. Illiteracy and population growth is very high among them. They consider their children as the gift of God. They do not understand the effect of large family on the income of the family. People belonging to this community are ignorant about biology of reproduction, need of birth control and devices of birth control. They consider family planning programme to be curse, as according to them this is against the God’s will. As a result, they create large number of births whose ultimate result is wide spread poverty. The objective of the study is to study the housing condition and family pattern of the Scheduled Castes people of Dhubri district of Assam and to suggest remedial measures for improving their quality of life on the basis of the findings. The methodology of the study will be based upon mainly the primary data which will be collected from the field survey.