Open AccessSERVICE CENTRES IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT : A CASE STUDY OF JAUNPUR DISTRICT, UTTAR PRADESH
Author(s) -
Dinesh Kumar
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of global resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2455-2445
pISSN - 2395-3160
DOI - 10.46587/jgr.2022.v08i01.007
Subject(s) - uttar pradesh , geography , centrality , socioeconomics , index (typography) , service (business) , population , agriculture , tertiary sector of the economy , business , medicine , environmental health , statistics , mathematics , sociology , computer science , marketing , archaeology , world wide web
This paper attempts to deal with the identifying theservice centers and calculation of the spatial arrangement withcomplementary area of service centres in Jaunpur districtJaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The study area is situated inEastern Uttar Pradesh of the Middle Ganga Plain. The study isexclusively based on secondary data collected at block levelfrom different offices. The centrality score has been calculatedon the basis of three type of indices like functional centralityindex, working population index and tertiary population index.There are 31 function or services selected judicially from fivesectors (administrative, agricultural and financial, educational,health and transport and communication) to measure thecentrality of service centre. The thissen polygon and berrybreaking point method has been used for measure thecomplementary area. Total 88 service centres have beenidentified as first, second, third, fourth and fifth order servicecentre. The number of I, II, III, IV, and V order centres accountsfor 43, 24, 16, 4, and 1 respectively.