A presentation on Gender &

livelihood in Paschim Simulia

Village in Nadia District
 Introduction:

By gender we mean the socially constructed and culturally

determined characteristics associated with women and men,
The concept of livelihood extends to include social and culture
means, i.e.’’ the command an individually family, or other social
group has over an income and or bundles of resources that can be
used or exchanged to satisfy its needs.
In our India the rural economy is the backbone of the country,
because almost 75percent of the total population are live in rural
India, and among them 55 percent women are live in that place.
But due to lack of proper educational facilities social barriers a
huge among of workforce are not use properly
 Objectives:
• To find out the nature of women’s participation in different type
livelihood activity.
• To find out the present status extent of the women participation in
different type of sector.
• To find out the disparity of wage rate among male &female engage
in some non-farm activities.
• To find out contribution of women in household income.
• To examine the scope of non-farm activities in different sector in
the study area.
• To examine socio-economic constrains in regard to different
activities as well as the suggestive measure to overcome the
problems.
 Study Area:
• We have been selected as our study area at
Paschim Simulia village. It is located at near
Ranaghat sub-division in Nadia District. The
village is under Ranaghat -2 Block, under
Gangna pur police station. specially village is
so remote ,which is 6 km from the Ranaghat
Town , in this village there is no
communication system
 Methodology
• Considering the above objectives, the present study has
conducted in the village Paschim Simulia in Ranaghat-2 Block
of Nadia district.
• For the purpose of primary data source with the help of
suitable survey schedule& questionnaires, have to be prepared
20household have to be selected from each village of the
study area.
• For the secondary information we use same published data by
the Government or non- government agencies may be used.
• For analysis the survey we have done tabular &chart from of
the data& briefly analyzed summarized them.
 Village profile
• Name of the village: Paschim Simulia

• District name: Nadia

• Gram Panchayat: Baidya pur-1
• Block Name : Ranaghat – 2
• Total House hold: 414
• Total population: 2074 (male- 1040, female-1034)
• Total S.C. Population: 1366(male-693, female-673)
• Total S.T. Population: 138 (male -67, female-71)
• Total literate Population: 1422(male -770, female-652)
• Total illiterate Population: 652(male-270, female -382)
• Total worker population: 794 (male -562, female-382)
• Total main worker population: 583(male-504, female-79)
• Total main agriculture population: 145 (male-127, female-18)
• Total other worker population: 176 (male-137, female-39)
• Total marginal worker population: 211 (male -58, female -153)
 DEMOGRAPHY:
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Category SC Gen

In my surveyed 20 families in paschim simulia village

the 20 families 14 families(70%) is S.C families, and
general 6 families (30%) who are belong to general
families
 ECONOMIC STATUS
In my surveyed 20 families I have found 11 families
are belongs to BPL category and 9 families are belongs
to APL category

APL

BPL

category

0 10 20 30 40 50 60
 Female worker as percent to total workers
Name %TFW %FMW %FMR %FNW %FCUL %FAL %FHHI %FOW
W

Village 37.0 13.6 65.9 62.7 2.2 12.4 54.8 22.2

Nadia 19.5 13.6 58.9 64.3 9.1 9.3 52.4 21.0

W.B 24.1 15.3 55.2 62.4 17.7 31.0 57.8 17.9

Women work participation in agricultural
sector
• In my surveyed village I found 13 families are
partially involved in agricultural sector among
the 20 families. Because maximum are from
BPL families, so they want to increase their
family income. They help in the different types
of activities in the agricultural system. Besides
2 families are totally involve in the agricultural
sector.
Women work participation in agricultural sector:

Percentage

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
Partially Fully
 Organized sector

In my surveyed village I found there are 2 families involve the organized sector. The percentage of the organized sector is poor, the village is agriculture predominant and most of the people are engaged in the agriculture sector

organized sector
involved
not involved
 SHG Activities:
70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
In SHG involve Not involve

In my surveyed village only 8 families involved in SHG, there are only

two SHG exists in these village . mainly their activities limited it’s main
reason their resource is very minimum. Those family involve in SHG they
lend money Rs. 30&50 every month. Other hand that group lend back the
member or other individual in 2% &1.5% for their any purpose.
 MGNREGA SECTOR:
Percentage

100
80
60 Percentage
40
20
0
Involved Not Involved

In my surveyed village I found that only 7days work is

created. In my surveyed households there are women from
only 2 families are involved in the MGNREGA sector.
Because maximum number of women unaccustomed with
these type of work.
 Specialized Activity for Women:

No of HH

Shop keeping

Animal husbandry

No of HH
Rearing poltry

Garland Making

Bidi Binding

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
 Socially restriction for women
 
• The main reason is male-dominant society.
• They are engage in their household work like cooking,
cleaning, child caring etc.
• They thought that it spoils the family image.
• They are very much deserved.
• Lack of awareness of the organized sector.
• They are not eligible in organized sector, because they are
not skilled or educated.
 Findings
• Maximum of women are involved in the agriculture sector.
• A very few portion of the families are involved in the organized
sector.
• In MGNREGA sector also have a poor percentage of women.
• A good number of women involved in SHG. There are two SHG is
found in this village. These are Begopara Mohila Samiti & Uday dal
• There is also different types of specialized activities are found in the
women. These are Bidi binding, Animal husbandry, shop keeping,
garland making etc.
• There is found different types of social restriction for the women .
 
 Summary &conclusion
.
• However, inhabitant of Paschim Simulia faced various problems in agriculture in
agriculture and non-agriculture field’s mention earlier, the common problems are lack of
education, skill, training, knowledge of education, skill , training, knowledge, capital,
proper rate of production communication.
• The above mention constrains or limitation can be overcome through better education,
proper training and its timely application. Farmers should be getting regular training
about up to date eco-friendly, agro-technologies. It is needless to mention the basic idea
behind training is to improve
• Through Government concern &other NGOs hearty contribution the awareness
about women & the rate of women participation in farm and non-farm sector is
looking a graceful position. Rural people are now very much conscious about
overall improvement in their lifestyle & women’s status. They feel that women
has potential to done easy &hard work in the equally to the men. For that the
picture of women’s participation in rural India has become change. The women
are now participate in a large number of agriculture as well as non-farm sector
&social-political sector to hide their own position. Women are the source of flow
less power to manage home & outside of the home.
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