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In the village the Beldar, Jain, Koli-Mahadeo, Lingayat, Chambhar, Muslim, and Panchal families are landless and among them the Jain, Koli-Mahadeo, Lingayat, and Panchal families and one Muslim are immigrants. Except these immigrants, one Brahman family, two Mali families, a few Maratha families, one Sonar, one Dhangar and one Teli are also immigrants. The head of the Jain, Koli-Mahadeo, Lingayat, Panchal, Brahman, one Mali and Maratha immigrant families are school teachers, another Mali is a village doctor, one Muslim is a forest rounder, one Maratha is a veterinary doctor and one Dhangar is an attendant in the veterinary hospital in the village. These employees are not considered as poor villagers because, they are having landed property at their native places. Formerly, the Beldar family was moving from one village to another wherever they used to get traditional jobs. In this village this family has settled for the last six years. And they get job from the villagers every month. But by this income they cannot maintain their family properly. The Muslim and the Chambhar are living in this village for generations together but they are not having cultivable land. The Muslim are traditionally butchers and get balut (annual payment) from the villagers for their job. They are also the agricultural labourers in this village. Through these two sources of income they cannot maintain their family properly and are passing days under hardships. These three Muslim families come under poorer section in the village. The Chambhar also are not having cultivable land in the village. They are still practicing their traditional occupation i.e., making new shoes or repairing the old ones. For performing traditional jobs in the village they get balut per year from the villagers. They also work as farm servants to the landowning cultivators in the village and perform their traditional jobs outside the village. Whatever they earn through traditional occupation and agricultural labour, is not sufficient for them to maintain their families. They are very poor in the village.
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