INTRODUCTION:

Our group's community profile area was allocated in a nearby place of uzan bazaar and brahmaputra
river. This area is named after a position of shipworker, called Arikati. The first settlers of arikati
village were migrants who were brought to Assam from UP and BIHAR, by the Britishers in 1930
as workers in Inland Waterways, and were provided the area to settle which is now named as
Arikati. Arikati village is majorly a Hindu dominated village as 80% of the people residing in the
village are Hindus, only a few Muslims stay in the area which are tennets, they donot posses their
own homes. The population of the settlers in the village is 902, in which there are 402 females and
500 males. Their is not much diversity in their caste and religion, there are 774 Hindus and 128
muslims (in which all of them are tennets). In the Hindus, there are 350 females and 424 males
belonging schduled caste, and 52 females and 76 males are generals. The village is situated just by
the river bank but yet they have lots of problems related to water scarcity. And the first settlers have
built their houses so thickly that now they have created a path way problem which also seems to be
one of their major problems, increasing population also cripled up their problems as of now the
drainage has become a polluting issue for the entire community. As because of the pathway is so
small that no garbagge disposal carriers could entry the community and the community members
nagligence in throughing their waste in the drain which hardly flows through the community is
creating adverse health issues.
Before the community used to be bigger which extended to the main uzan bazaar area but now they
have been confined to a smaller area as the area is divided into two majorities Hindus and Muslims.
As our research is based on the Hindu community area so we will be giving our emphasis in this
section only. Due to the community separation small amount of clashes is noticiable as the other
community members of the Muslim section is not allowed in the affairs and customs of Arikati
village but they are allowed to use the pathways. And if any kind of inter-caste marraige is not
aceptable, the girl or boy is social excluded and not allowed to attain community discussion and
customs.

COMMUNITY DYANAMICS:

In a community there are two parts to be explored namely, physical part and Human part.

PHYSICAL PART:-
In the physical part we will elaborated the working condition of the community how they are cope
up with their needs and what are the resources and agencies, policies to sustain their community.

On our first observation we noticed that ther was a Anganwari centre in the community which was
also used as a community hall for discussion and community meetings. The Anganwari centre
provided free rice, dal and soyabeans but the Anganwari worker ms. Sapna Rani Deka Sarmah told
us that the people of the community only visited to the centre on the distribution days only and there
were no schools in the community whatever schooling was done is limited to the anganwari centre
only a few section of the childrens went to schools outside the community. As of this reason the
literacy rate is very low on 1 MBA student was their in the community which also belonged to the
rich section.
The president of the community was an ex-worker in Inland waterways but didnt seemed to posses
leadership quality, as he was hagitant towards most of the questions we asked it resembled as if he
was political bound to talk freely. The politicization was further noticed when the leaders or elders
of the community members said that the rulling political party provided them with seven individual
drinking water pipelines which they told us they share with the community, was nothing but than a
lie which we revealed later on while interacting with the poor sections of the community. There was
only one drinking water source in the community which to was on the outskirt of the village. There
are three wells within the community but the water in it was filled with mud and so was unhygenic
to use. Moreover the drainage system complied their problems further as the drain flowed through
along the pathway and dumping waste in it created the risk of many communicable illnesses like
fever, cold, allergies, etc. Often in the community. The pathways through the community were very
thick which is also considered as a problem because if anybody got severely sick it was hard for the
community members to get him/her to the hospital as no ambulence could entry the community so
they have to carry the person out of the community to get any kind of assistance, moreover there
were no pharmacies or health care centre within the comuunity.
Our next observation was on the human part of the community.

HUMAN PART:-
the human part basically deals with life related issues- livelihood, community welfaring ways and
so on. Our first initiative was to explore the livelihoods of the people, what they did for living.

Occupation-
We found out that the major portion of the community were wage earners both male and female,
some of them worked on shops owned by the Marwaris through the city. Only 11 people were
workers in the Inland waterways. Some of them were also contractor and some had personal
bussiness like shops or indulged in fishing bussiness, the women also helped their families by
bringing home money doing works like- selling fish, parlour jobs, home works and some of them
provided massage to old people and also did mehendi work in occasions.

Literacy-
The literacy rate of the community people is very low, 80% dropout from school at a very early
stage, maximum qualification is 5 stamdards, only a few managed to complete 10th standards, only 1
MBA holder and only approx 5% went to colleges. Major issue related to so many dropouts were no
parental guidance as they too are not literate, the surroundings also influence to leave their study
and earn money moreover gambling, addiction to substances are also previlant in the community.

Social security, policies and community enchancement-

The government has not provided the community with any assistance in matters of social security,
no social protection schemes, no BPL cards offered they are not even getting old age pension.
Moreover the whole area of Arikati belongs to the government so there is a constant fear of
eviction.
But as a community they have a tent house which is been provided to the community members to
use in occasions with only an amount of 51 rupees as a token of appritiation. They also have a
strong notion that no personal or community affairs has to be resolved within the community. All
the issues raised or anybody violating community norms and laws are resolved by the community
members with the concerns of every member.

Resources and Services-

Gender, women's role, mobility and participation, etc-

Throughout our research and observation, we noticed that there is some sort of gender equality
previlent in the community as they are indulge in different works for income generation as well as
their is a women commitee not like a proper SHG but yet sorting the issues of women and raising
their issues in the community meetings. Women also have their access in political discussion,
women participation is equal in every perspect but only one discrimnation noticiable in the
community was that they were not allowed to sit inside the community hall during community
meetings and discussions. They were allowed to sit out side of the hall but had access to question or
reason in discussion, they have the freedom to speak.
As far as mobility is concerned, both men and women go out for work to different places wherever
the opportunity calls. And in the harvesting months most of the tennets move out to Bihar for
cultivation purpose and along with that they also celebrate their custom chhath puja which is the
most important festival for them.