PRESENCE OF DISPARITIES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AT MICRO LEVEL IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - A STUDY IN PURULIA DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Unequal development and its trend of steady magnification have been appeared as the cause of multiple social and economic depreciations in India. The disparities in human development at macro level, i.e. national and state level has been well focused whereas analysis of micro-level disparities in this aspect has been ignored. The development plans at presents thrust on decentralized plans where the micro level sectoral and spatial variation of ‘surplus’ and ‘deficit’ in different dimensions of development should be given immense importance. The structuring of a management plan with a view of repairing the lacunas of underdevelopment and equalized distribution of impulse of development requires the detailed profile of existing pattern of development in different socio-economic dimensions of the target region. Purulia district is one of the most backward districts in West Bengal in perspective of human development. But the block level scenario of development pattern explores the presence of intra-district disparity at a considerable magnitude. The present study attempts to analyse this micro-level i.e. block level disparity in human development with suitable statistical measurement and graphical representation as well as examines different determinants leading to the present pattern of development in this district.