• DR. DEBENDRA KUMAR BEZBARUAH
• Mr. Dhruba Jyoti Sarma

Abstract The present study is the result of the research work on “Degradation of Wetland Eco-system in Assam and Its Impact on the Wetland Dependent Community: A Case study in Erstwhile Kamrup District ” using both primary and secondary data. As per 2001 census report , 79.2 per cent fishermen of the total Scheduled Castes of Assam depends on wetlands as their livelihood . In Assam as well as in erstwhile Kamrup district fishing community comprises six groups , namely Kaibartas,Jal-Keots,Patnis,Jhalo-malos,Namasudras and Hiras. With the growth of population the increasing activities of human being on the wetlands degrade its ecosystem .Similarly the ecosystem of three sample wetlands of the erstwhile Kamrup district viz A. Kapla beel , B. Jalikhora and C. Deepor beel are being degraded day by day .As a result the productivity of the wetlands is declining and therefore , the different organism of the beels are being threatened. At the same time the people of the fishing community are suffering from economic crisis. Keeping in view this background the study aims at an assessment of present status of the three sample wetlands under study at micro level and finding out the constraints associated with the wetlands. Moreover the study makes an attempt to examine the wetland ecosystem in terms of both physico-chemical and socio-economic parameters .Further with the help of the case study over a total of 300 sample households of twenty sample villages near the sample wetlands an effort is made to find out the present plight of the fishing community.

Key words : Wetland, dependent community, Eco-system, Assam , Kamrup district.

" IMPACT OF DEGRADATION OF WETLAND ECO-SYSTEM ON THE WETLAND DEPENDENT FISHING COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY IN ERSTWHILE KAMRUP DISTRICT, ASSAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.176-188, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907B87.pdf

" IMPACT OF DEGRADATION OF WETLAND ECO-SYSTEM ON THE WETLAND DEPENDENT FISHING COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY IN ERSTWHILE KAMRUP DISTRICT, ASSAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp176-188, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907B87.pdf