THE IMPACT OF FOEIGN REMITTANCE ON HOUSEHOLD WBLFARE IN MANMUNAI NORTH DS DIVISION

Abstract

This study mainly focuses to investigate how migrant workers distribute their income in the household welfare in various ways. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of foreign remittance income on household welfare in MN DS Division in Batticaloa District. For this purpose the talab were collected from the twenty four purposively selected Grama Niladhari Divisions and 220 households were randomly selected as sample. Statistical package for Social Science (SPSS 22) was used to present, analyze and evaluate the data. The problem to be addressed in this study is how are the remittance spent on household welfare? Since international remittance is large, many researchers feel that how migrants spend their remittance earnings and how that will have an important development effect on local economics. Findings of this study revealed that the main source of income in the area was foreign remittance. After the migration, the income of the migrants' families are significantly improved, migrants' family become many fold higher on their basic needs fulfillments such as housing, health and their children education. Due to this increase in income after migration, the respondents preferred to develop their housing facilities with sufficient living space or other facilities regarding their houses also they develop their healthy needs with nutritional foods or medical checkup facilities and they preferred to promote their children educational level via getting admission in the schools, private classes facilities as well as higher studies facilities then they have increased their savings through banking deposits or other investments. The overall impact on housing, health, education, savings and investments and free time are significantly impact on foreign remittance income. The study recommends that for better utilization of the foreign remittance proper training is required of the left over family members so that the investment may be in such a way to generate employment in this study area