The Socio-Economic Standard of Paduvankarai-Eravur Divisional Secretariat

Abstract

This research paper is based on socio-economic situation of Paduvankarai - Eravur divisional secretariat. According to the central bank report, the level of poverty was 6.7% in Batticaloa, 2015. In fact, Paduvankarai-Eravur socio-economic situation seems to be effected by poverty or under the poverty line; here socioeconomic standard of the people is very low comparatively with other districts. Especially this research paper has been written in order to reconsider the Paduvankarai area which comes under Eravur divisional secretariat. This research paper is based on primary and secondary data. The data collected through questionnaire for the research, translated into software files and graph through SPSS 16.0 and converted the collected information in to tables through Microsoft 2007. This area has been identified as one of the areas that is under the poverty line, and its socioeconomic condition has been analyzed with the help of the collected data. In this area, people have faced number of challenges and problems such as unemployment, discrimination in the daily wages, poor condition of the houses and lack of sanitary conditions. These are some of the socioeconomic problems, they have been facing above mentioned problems due to various economic and social ignorance. 70% of the people live in their own houses and rest of them live in the thatched (huts) and rental houses. People don't have proper access to drinking water, and enough toilets. 52% of the people get water from common wells, and only 53% people have electricity in their houses. 88% of the people uses government transport system, and 63% of the people have access to Tele-phone connection. Most of them are day-to-day laborers (Cooley works) and fishermen. There is a big disparity between the earning and spending. They don't have enough income to meet their day-to-day needs like health, education and food.  27% of the people earn between Rs. 2000 to 5000, 42% of the people earn between Rs.5000 to 8000, 16% of the people earn between Rs. 8000 to 10000, 9% of the people earn Rs.10000 to 15000 and only 6% of the people earn Rs.15000 and more then Rs.15000. It is very much visible that people are under poverty line due to lack of income to face their basic needs. In fact, government and NGOs are helping these people to face the challenges and to bear the cost of living. Even though, there are numbers of programs scheduled to help these poor people to improve their (life standard) socioeconomic condition, still they find it difficult to cope with the present cost of living.