Abstract
After independence India has made remarkable progress in the socio-economic status of the people. But the attainment of this has spread highly uneven among the urban and rural areas. Regional imbalances are common phenomenon in the world, which occurred across different continents, countries and regions in different extent and India is not exception in this context. This phenomenon spread among inter-regions, inter-states and intra-states n India. This resulted into uneven development in the country. This process of imbalance is not exception in Bagalkot district. There are three major rivers namely the Krishna, the Malaprabha and the Ghataprabha and their tributaries flow in the study area and play important role in the development of the district. However, the study reveals that there exists a wide imbalance in the level of socio-economic development in the region. In view of this, an attempt has been made in this research work to evaluate and compares temporal growth and spatial pattern of disparities in the levels of socio-economic development at block level in Bagalkot district. Correlation coefficient technique has been applied to understand the correlation between different factors which are responsible for widening the regional imbalance. To analyses the regional imbalance of six taluks of Bagalkot district, 23 social, economic and demographic indicators have been considered. The present paper is based on secondary information based on which the socio-economic imbalance among the taluks of the district is made with the help of composite development index for two time of point i.e. 1997 and 2017 data. It has been observed that the social indicator values varied from 11 to 27. The study period witnessed Bagalkot, Badami, Hunagund and Jamkhandi are the three taluks which represent high social development, whereas low (< 11) social development was observed in Bilagi taluk. The outstanding causes for this backwardness are are, less number of education institutes, communication centers, adult education centers, health centers, family planning centers, recreational centers etc. The observed values of economic development are ranging between 19 and 35. It had been observed in only two taluks viz Bilagi and Hungund were found in high economic development, and low economic development was recorded in Jamakhandi taluk. Bagalkot, Mudhol and Badami taluks registered under relatively developed range. Lastly to understand the overall development, the observed values of socio-economic, economic and infrastructure indicators are added and derived a separate composite index.
Highlights
The earlier research works reveal that the regional disparities are unique and universal phenomena in the world, which spread among the different countries and regions in different scale and economies
Backward regions are to be developed by implementing new government programmes like subsidies and Central assistance Socio-economic development is a process of betterment for a large human group and includes both economic development and social transformation
To examine the economic development of the district agriculture, industries, bank, societies, telephones, transports are the important indicators taken into consideration and composite index has been drawn and thereafter the obtained composite values have been presented in table 2
Summary
The earlier research works reveal that the regional disparities are unique and universal phenomena in the world, which spread among the different countries and regions in different scale and economies. The “report of the Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Redressing Growing Regional Imbalances (Planning Commission 2005) identified 170 most backward districts including 55 Extremist affected districts in the country It has come out with suggestions which have tried to touch upon issues relating to decentralized governance with a focus on development of systematic village level plans”. The study area consists of six blocks such as Badami, Bagalakot, Bilagi, Hunagunda, Jamakandi and Mudhol It situated in the extreme northern part of Karanatak state lies between 16° 07I N 160 12 I North latitude and 73o 27 I East 750 45 I East longitude (Fig.1) The district surrounded by Vijayapur district in the north, Gadag district in the south, Raichur district towards the east, Koppal district to south east and Belgum district towards the west. Since the study is confined to the rural areas; towns and cities of the district are excluded from the study region
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