Question

Write a note on the case study of Employment in Iruvelpattu.

Answer 1

1. Iruvelpattu is a village in Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu.
2. This village has been studied for more than 100 years by many scholars.
3. This village is also called Slater village as Gilbert Slater was the first scholar working in the University of Madras who went with his students to study this village in 1916.
4. Over the years, many scholars surveyed the occupations of villagers and collected many more details of each person in the village.
5. The government brought social security awareness among the people of the village through their primary health care, provision of schools, maintenance of public distribution system.
6. Though this village underwent many changes, is still dependent on agriculture as the main occupation
7. In the following chart we can notice that during 1981, out of 100 families, 24 were engaged in non-agriculture employment.
8. In 2008, the percentage of families engaged in such employment increased to 41.