Human Research Development: A Case Study of an NGO in Assam

About 90-91% of the households use biomass as a fuel for

cooking meals as well as to prepare food for their cattle and

Resource Bio-mass

livestock. The people use the biomass as an exclusive source

of energy. Apart from cooking, people also use biomass as

the source of heat during winter.

The main source of water is the underground water. It is

found that the quality of drinking water in that area is very

Resource water

poor and it causes a number of diseases. Moreover the

filtration systems used by the people of the area are very

crude and unscientific.

It is observed during survey, that different types of food

grains and vegetables are grown in the area. It is found

Resource Soil

that the soils of the area are fertile for different types of

vegetation.

The area presents a very poor scenario with regard to

agricultural development. The main problems for the lack

Vegetation and

of agriculture are:- Loans from the banks or credit agencies

Agriculture

are not generally accessible to farmers in this area for which

Development

they can’t exploit the modern system for cultivation. Also

lack of education, out dated thinking and prejudiced cultural

values are also important problems.

Most of the families of the area do not have a proper toilet,

so certain sanitary wastes are generated. The problem of

Waste

waste disposal can be solved by creating proper awareness

among the public and introducing some low cost sanitary

systems.

Non-farm skills have been playing an important role

in employment generation. Some people of the area

are traditionally expert weavers. Though they weave

Non-Farm Skill

traditionally and their products are well designed, of better

quality and good looking too, some problems still exist due

to which it is not a commercial activity as yet

Though different types of markets are available, the main

market concern in the area is the Physical Retail Market.

The village farmer’s market which prevails in the surveyed

Market

area is a very ordinary type of market where a few shops are

permanent and the other shops are temporary. The temporary

shops operate only once or twice a week.

Only one post office prevails in the surveyed area. There

are a number of public Telephone Booths in the area which

Communication

help the people to communicate. Now-a-days mobile

connectivity is gaining popularity, particularly with the

younger generations.

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