Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 7

Level of Social Development in Haryana, India

  • Author:
  • Mukesh Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Vinay Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 22 to 35

Research Scholar, Department of Geography, MD University, Rohtak, India

Abstract

There is various dimensions of development like; social development, economic development, political development. Present study deals with social development in Haryana. There are many indicator of social development viz; literacy, health, sex ratio, age at marriage, urbanization, transport, housing etc. Study analyzed seven indicators of social development. These indicators are general literacy rate, female literacy rate, male- female literacy gap, sex ratio, child sex ratio, urbanization and population growth rate. Present paper is based on secondary data sources which obtained from census of India, 2011. Paper attempts to analyse the spatial pattern of above given indicators and composite impact of these indicators on social development in Haryana. By using statistical technique and the district level data, the result divided into three categories i.e. high, moderate and low. Study found that there is disparity in the level of social development in Haryana.