CURRENT SOCIAL STATUS

Demographic indicators are important to formulate plan and policies for different population groups. Population structure helps to estimate productive age population, sizes of school age population and dependent population.Based on results of study, there are 11,859 households in this municipality where total population is 55,105. Out of total, male and female population is around 27,721 and 27,384 respectively. Average household size of this municipality is 4.6 and sex ratio(no. of male per 100 female)is found to be 101.2 and the overall dependency ratio is 58.5 which indicates the major of working age population were not migrated from this municipality. The majority of household have 3-4 persons(38%)followed by 5-6 persons in 35%households. Similarly,1-2 persons of household members is in third position(13%)and more than 6 household members is only 14%.This municipality followed the same trend of Nepal i.e. the majority of household are male headed household. Out of total household, proportion of female headed household is only 34%. Majority of the household head are in age group of 40-49 yrs. Less than 20 yrs. of age headed by household head is found in very less number. Majority of the population are reported married and living with single spouse indicates that monogamy is most dominant marital status in this area.Nepal is a multi lingual and has diversity in terms of ethnic composition. Obviously, this pattern is also observed in this municipality. Attempt has been taken to collect the information on cast/ethnicity, language as a mother tongue and religion which are the important aspects for social component of the society. The majorities are Brahman(33.7%) and followed by Gurung(16%), Dalit(15%),Chhetri(14.8%)and others in Lekhnath.

Migration is one of the central mechanisms of population rearrangement. It is a spatial mobility of people by changing usual place of residence. They have been migrating from one place to other i.e. rural to rural , urban to urban and rural to urban during the search or employment, education, etc. Some other reasons like natural calamities, political reason have also forced people to flee from their birthplace to other potential areas for livelihood. Similarly, poverty, inequitable distribution of income, unemployment, difficult livelihood and food insecurity are also important causes for migration. Migration information was collected by the village development committee level.

Those who are migrated to other places from the origin are internal migrants or in migrants. All migrants who have migrated and settled in destination from various origins are called in-migrants. Out-migrants are those internal migrants who leave their place of origin and migrate to different areas. So, for the place of origin, they are defined as out-migrants. A life time migrant is one who moves from his/her birthplace to present place or destination where they are enumerated at the time of survey irrespective of the no. of times they migrated. According to the investigation, about 44.8%people are migrated from their origin. Among this,54%are migrated by same district from other areas and only few %i.e. 4%people are migrated from other countries. Among 24,696 migrants,37.3%people are in-migrated for better lifestyle and followed by category of study, marriage(26.6%). In category of service  transfer and attractive wage few people are in-migrated as (0.8%) and (1.0%) respectively.