The ‘United Nations Development Program’ (UNDP) published its first human development report in 1990. “Human development was defined as long as healthy life, proper education, standerd of living, political freedom, guranted human rights and are the additional choises.” “Human development is a process of widening peoples choices as well as raising the level of well […]
It is generally a trend that per capita income is generally taken as a factor to show the disparities between the region or state. But only per capita income does not show the overall disparities existing between states or regions. There are indicators such as industrial development, agricultural growth, level of literacy sector, urbanization, infant
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Some of the important techniques in the measurement of disparities. A. Composite Index Method By taking a single indicator – e.g. Agriculture or industrial C.D.I = Pi/PI x 100 Where, CDI = coefficient of development factor ‘i’ Pi = % of factor ‘i’ PI = mean % value factor in the whole region. 2. By
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There are so many indicators of developments listed below. All that affect economic development. A. Agriculture Development Agriculture development can notes the ‘quality of funcationing og agricultural system’ of a region in term productivity, diversification, commercilization, ecological balance etc. Cultivated land per agricultural worker. The intensity of cropping. The intensity of irrigation. Consumption of fertilizer
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Defination: “Development means changes in desired direction and as a desired speed.” “Development means remove the inequalities among the person, region and state.” Factor Controlling/Affecting Development Physical Resources: There is a positive relationship between quality, diversity, quality of resources, and regional variation in the level of development. The region which has full of resources they
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– In 1972 C.S.Chandrasekhara divided India into 13 macro and 35 meso region planning. – He used the criteria of physical, economic, and ecological factors to reach the macro scale division of India. Micro regions are: Jammu & kashmir and Ladakh region. Trans Indo-Gigantic plain region. Ganga-yamuna plain region. Lower ganga plain region. North-eastern region.
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A. Micro Regions: B. Meso Regions: C. Macro Regions:
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Concept of Planning Region: “An area which has a group of one characteristic human pattern or absolute to environment”. American society of planners “Complex of land, water, air, plant, animal and man regarded in the spatial relationship as together consisting a definite portion of the earth surface”. A.J.Harbartson Concept of Planning: Planning Region: Definition: “Planning
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“A region is a unit of land having a unique character or homogeneity, based on local features of geology, relief, soil, climate, vegetation and human way of life” Example – The central valley of California, Indo-genetic region, etc. in Regional Planning and Its Application – But this confusion can under reduced as far as region
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