Traditional Profession and Livelihood: A Study on Sweeper Community

Abstract

The study aims to find the trend of traditional profession, livelihood situation of sweeper community and causes behind the living in between poverty in Bangladesh. Survey and focus group discussion (FGD) were taken as method. The findings show that all household of the sweeper are being deprived from socio economic advantages, comparatively with general community. Most of the sweeper's households are burden by excess expenditure over income. They are depending on loan from informal sector. Over the generation, they have not been changing their profession radically due to several causes. Government and non- government sector should take more initiative that ensures sweeper communities access to same rights and services enjoyed by mainstream society. Immediate action is necessary to uplift and reform their livelihood and profession