Kapla beel and its impact on socio- economic condition of dependent people

This paper presents the resources of kapla beel, and its impact on socio-economic status of dependent people. The kapla beel economically supports the dependent people for their survival. The dependent people earn their livelihoods directly through capturing of fishes and cultivating paddy in wetland areas. Around the beel there are seven villages namely Kapla, Baniakuchi, Helaypara, Amrikhowa, Haldhibari, Sinadi and Churchuria village having approximately 14,100 population. Out of these 710 persons primarily and 654 were secondarily dependent on beel resources. The dependent people overexploit the fish and land resources of the beel to maximum extent and as a result of that Kapla beel facing several kinds of threats and in the long run destroys the potentialities of ecosystem services to dependent population on sustain basis. It is necessary to take some protective measures to conserve kapla beel and its resources to provide benefit to dependent population around the beel on sustained basis.