BADI CHILDREN EDUCATION AND AFFECTING FACTORS IN THEIR SCHOOLING

Badi community is a lowest caste group not only in other caste group but it is also among Dalit community. The educational status of Badi community is not satisfactory and as pitiable. To address this problem, the aim of the study is to find out the educational status of Badi children and affecting factors in their schooling. From the literature review, there have been few study on Badi community rather than other Dalit, thus, there is more difficult to get the study on Badi education. So to fill this gap I am selected the Badi community of Dullu municipality of Dailekh district to study their current educational status by the use of census method. Research design is based on quantitative technique and data collected by the primary sources such as interview with closed ended questionnaire, observation, daily diary and data is analyzed by the use univariate and bivariate technique through SPSS software. Education status of Badi is not satisfactory and/or miserable. Their literacy rate and completion of school level education is lower than the national ratio, still, the enrollment and pass rate in higher education is very low. Likewise, parents perceptions in schooling is positive but only to literacy rather than knowledge acquiring. Mostly, parents attention is more centralized to the daily wage work for their livelihood due to the poor economic condition. They are not confidence of any good opportunities after achieving education. On the other hand, Badi children are not so interested on schooling but more interested other income generation activities. Thus, their school education is only literacy oriented.