Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

The Status of Others in Bhubaneswar

Sameer Kumar Jena

Abstract :

These people are generally known by the term ‘Hijra’ though some other names are also prevalent in south India and other parts of the country. These community remain isolated from the society and have their own customs and practices, they live in groups comprising of guru and chelas. The present day Transgender are most marginalized group. Many transgender live their life with a lie about their gender identity, some reveal it at early whereas some spend their whole life to reveal about their gender identity. Present study aimed to observe the socio– economic condition of Transgender Community in Bhubaneswar. The study combined the two arms of research, qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and analysis. The study consisted of transgender (n=52), and that had been selected for the study by using Purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by visiting the houses of the Transgender from three major Transgender populated places of Bhubaneswar such as Behera Sahi of Satyanagar, Vanivihar and pallashpali. Out of the 52 Transgender 14 number of people are found to be in age group 25–34.According to Guru of different groups of Bhubaneswar generally at the age of 17–20 maximum transgender come to join Community. Social exclusion is the main factor for leaving home .Only 3 transgender are having Graduation and above education level, whereas 12 have primary and 17 have secondary education. So many reasons are found to be affecting their level of education, among those social exclusion and day to day life discriminations are found to be principal cause. Many of them are engaged in begging, commercial sex work and ceremonial collection by dancing and singing on auspicious occasions like marriage or childbirth. Though few tried to participate in main stream of society but they were lost in the middle of the way. Maximum number of people are earning between ₹1,000– ₹4,999 per month. They have to compromise their basic expenses like health, food and Clothes due to low income.

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THE STATUS OF OTHERS IN BHUBANESWAR, Sameer Kumar Jena INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2019

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