Street Sweeping as a Livelihood Strategy of Pode Community in KMC: Livelihood Assets and Vulnerabilities

Published By: North-South Publications | Published Date: January, 01 , 2016

The study of geography of poverty and peoples’ changing livelihood and their relation with globalization are some of the major areas of geographic research in the present context (Subedi, 2005). So, Podes (i.e. sweeper) are chosen for the study and KMC is chosen for the study area since it provides an opportunity to different people the sweeping (job) in a regular basis. In this study, those sweepers caste people (Podes) who work under environment department of KMC head office are chosen as sample population size.

Author(s): Basant Adhikari | Posted on: Jan 08, 2016 | Views()


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