Poverty and Challenges of Livelihood among the Muslim of Dhubri District of Assam

Exploring the Socioeconomic Challenges Faced by Muslims in Dhubri District

Abstract

The primary source of livelihood of the Muslim population of Dhubri District is agriculture and allied activities. Due to the frequent flood and river erosion, agriculture sector become a non-profitable occupation and the changes in the nature of agriculture sector in recent time the added fuel to the fire. Transformation of livelihood become the necessity of their life and leaving behind the agriculture sector they are in bound to search for new source of livelihood.Poverty is a ‘never failing friend’ of the Muslim people of the district. More than eighty percent of the Muslim people of the district are living below the poverty level. The forced occupational mobility for which they are quite unprepared having no specialization in any way brings challenges to their life. They are poor in every field economically, physically, educationally and culturally.