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The education system of the village is not satisfactory.

Majority of the children are not availing education facility

Education System

because of their poverty. From the teacher-student ratio,

it is clear that the required number of teachers is also not

available in all the schools.

The people of the area generally use fire-wood from the

nearby forests. It is seen that a large portion of the area in

and around the villages surveyed are covered by the forest.

Forestry Products

These forests are extensively used by the villagers for the

collection of fire-wood. The problem of uncontrolled use of

forestry products can be solved by using the different modes

of non-conventional sources of energy.

Almost all the families maintain livestock and animals, but

due to some deterrent problems like lack of capital to invest

for maintaining livestock and animals on commercial basis

Livestock and animals

and also due to lack of proper scientific knowledge, they

cannot use these as a source of income. Lack of veterinary

doctor for consultation in regards to animal diseases is also

a major problem.

Transportation facilities in the form of auto riskshaws,

tempos, public transport etc though available but are for

a limited period of 12 hours throughout the day. Though

Transportation System

the main road connectivity to the area is pitched and well

developed but the country side roads are still “kachha”

roads. So there is a scope for improvement of the roads.

The selected area is not affected by natural disasters like

flood, earthquake etc. Since the entire North East India is

situated in earthquake zone-V, there is always a common

Disaster Management

risk of earthquake. As there are no multi storied buildings in

the area under survey, the risk of disaster due to earthquake

is limited. There is not much scope for any man-made

disasters also.

The above data has been collected through field survey by SNEHPAD. Further

an interview schedule was prepared with related questions on 19 different broad

headings. These interview schedules have been filled up through door to door

survey of all families residing in all the 11 villages of New Sonowal area of the

Assam-Nagaland border. The responses of the villagers have been interpreted

graphically to get the composite idea of each of the areas of analysis.

Analysis

¾ The income level of 51.2% of the families lies in the range of ` 20000.00

– 50000.00 annually and that of 34.7% of the families lies in the range of `

10000.00 – 20000.00 annually. In terms of absolute numbers, out of the 760

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