_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: mamunrda@gmail.com; Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies 8(2): 37-45, 2020; Article no.AJESS.57386 ISSN: 2581-6268 Livelihood Status of the People Living in Unified Enclaves (Chitmahal) of Bangladesh A. K. M. Zakaria 1 , M. A. Mamun 1* , M. A. Majid 1 and R. Sultana 1 1 Rural Development Academy, Bogura, Bangladesh. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. Author AKMZ designed the study, wrote the protocol and supervised the research work. Authors M. A. Mamun, M. A. Majid and RS managed the literature searches, conducted field survey, collected data, performed statistical analysis and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI:10.9734/AJESS/2020/v8i230220 Editor(s): (1) Dr. M. Camino Escolar-Llamazares, University of Burgos, Spain. Reviewers: (1) M. Kiley-Worthington, Centre d’Eco-Etho Recherche et Education, France. (2) Bülent Aksoy, Gazi University, Turkey. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/57386 Received 25 March 2020 Accepted 01 June 2020 Published 12 June 2020 ABSTRACT The study was under take to determine and describe the general characteristic of respondents, to explore present livelihood status of unified enclaves people and to identify problems faced by them. The study was conducted at different unified enclaves’ areas of Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Panchagarh and Nilphamari district during December 2016-June 2017. A total 200 respondents were randomly selected from unified enclave areas for the study 50 from each district. Thirty two percent residents live in straw and mud wall houses and side walls are developed either by tin or by bamboo or other low cost materials and poor families (29%) have walls made by jute sticks. Agriculture is the main source of livelihoods in these areas (80%) including agricultural day labour. Non-farm activities (20%) are mainly limited to shop keeping or trading, rickshaw van pulling. No formal educational institute sponsored by government or private sector was found in unified enclave areas but recently people in enclave areas have built new structures with signboard on their lands by own finances with the hope that their relatives and peers will get jobs if the government approves the scheme. There is no community clinic or primary healthcare facility in the unified enclave areas. Majority of the respondents (76%) take treatment from village doctor and Kobiraj followed by upazilla health care centre (13%) and 5% from community clinic. Ninety two percent birth deliveries had been attended by relatives or midwives at home. Nearly 92% girls were Original Research Article