Fisheries Community Case Study

Community: Fisheries Community (Oraon) in Chhatarpur block

The term “community” is constructed as a model. It is a just like the organization where human beings enclosed for serving each other and living within the geographical area (town or village) that shares a common social identity and practices. Community emerged as a group of people with diverse features who are bind by socially, share their common views, and engage in joint action of work. Community is like a group of people where everyone interdependent to each other on the basis of diverse background knowledge. According to Kingsley Davis, “Community is the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects of social life.”

I have choose the community “Oraon” which is one of

Owing to their remote location this community has not traditionally engaged with the formal education. We also know form the Rakku’s story that how the lack educational knowledge and poverty affected the life of son. The gap of literacy rate between Schedule Tribes and rest of the population is huge that leads to ultimately less chance of employment and drag into long term income poverty. Education is a process or activity which may either improved the living condition or future secure of living. It may expand the livelihood opportunity and tackling down the problem of poverty. Hence, education is the key indicator for both health and livelihoods and need to be implemented more flexible structure and policies of education system. As a result we can say that all these three are interdependent to each other and influences against one

Inclusive fisheries livelihood model programme comes under the sustainable livelihood model which had been chosen for this community. The broad objective of this programme was increasing the income of this community, ensuring that people get services on time, bringing people out of social exclusion, and making peoples’ of this community economically self-independent. The reason behind chosen this programme in Palamu districts region was deficient in rainfall and agricultural activities. Fish farming was the good option because the demand is more than the production and do not care which community is producing and selling fish. It was really important to reach out this community to identify and teach them new technologies for social uplift. The community was empty of livelihood resources and also lack of knowledge and confidence. Fish farming really help them to get out the poverty trap and fulfilment of all what they want. The PACKS programme also work in other livelihood strategies of for this community was Forest Right Act (FRA). As per the testimony of one of the members of this community express the benefit of the