Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Abdus Salam ¹

Affiliations
1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist: Goalpara, Assam, IN

Abstract

The present investigation was undertaken to study the living conditions of child rag pickers with special reference to solid waste of Guwahati City in Assam. A representative sample of 140 child rag pickers was selected from different areas of Guwahati City in Assam through snowball and purposive sampling. It was found that majority of rag pickers were 8 to 12 years of age and had migrated from other states of India namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to Assam. These children had accompanied their parents and relatives to Assam in search of a livelihood. Hardly local children were found to be working as rag-pickers. Most of these children belonged to nuclear families were living under one roof with an average of 6 to 10 members usually residing in clusters of small slums in and around Guwahati City of Assam. The family occupation of the majority of the child rag pickers was labouring (67.14%) while 15.71% families were found to be engaged in both farming and labouring prior to their migration. The main reasons for the families' migration were poverty and hunger. It was found that the children faced various physical hazards such as cuts or bruises on their body and were also susceptible to infections and diseases. It was also found that 90.71% rag pickers were out of school and main reasons of out of school were poverty and hunger (42.14%), lack of interest (22.14%), death of a parent or both parents (14.29%) etc.

Keywords

Living condition, Rag picker, Children, Occupation, Migration

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Abdus Salam ¹

Affiliations
1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist:Goalpara, Assam, IN

Abstract

The order of human rights seems to be a recent phenomenon originating with the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations. Human rights are international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. Examples of human rights are the right to freedom of religion, the right to a fair trial when charged with a crime, the right not to be tortured, and the right to engage in political activity. These rights exist in morality and in law at the national and international levels. The main sources of the contemporary conception of human rights are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Abdus Salam ¹

Affiliations
1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist: Goalpara, Assam, IN

Abstract

The concept "Human Resource Development" in the study of "Human Resource Development in Higher Education in Assam" is of high value in business and industry and has been used and applied since years. In industry and business the 'human' element is considered as a resource and hence its development and protection is very essential and inevitable. Of all the factors of production, human resource is the only factor having rational faculty and therefore, it must be handled with utmost care. Right recruitment, right training and right induction followed by faultless monitoring and welfare measures are but decisive factors in business and industry. Altogether there is a constant attention up on human factor there. But this is not a practice at all in education. So far there has not been any such measure of care and close watch and performance analysis of human resource on education front. This may be the main reason for lack of accountability in the sphere of education. The present study reveals the importance of introducing HRD practices in higher educational institutions in Assam. In order to promise human capital formation through education, it is basic requirement. The higher educational institutions must follow the method of industry and commerce because education can be treated as an industry in service sector. There also we can follow the methods of right recruitment, right training and promotion, delegation, performance analysis and accountability checking of human resource. HRD is a powerful idea of transformation of human being into highly productive and contributing factor. The HRD of students is the sum total of HRD of teachers. The quality of administrative staff in colleges also affects the quality of higher education. Hence, it is high time to introduce the managerial method of HRD with all its paraphernalia in higher educational institutions so as to assure proper human capital formation in higher education in India.

Keywords

Higher Education, Human Resources Development, Quality of Higher Education, Refresher Course, And National Knowledge Commission.

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