Role of Rural Market Centres in Make in India A Case Study of Budni Block, Dist. Sehore

Rural market centres are settlements which provide services for the population of their hinterlands along with their own population. They provide services to the consumers living around. Apart from agricultural products other amenities like Education, Medical, Post and Telegraph, Power supply, Communication, Transport etc are also important for the development of rural areas. So, for the improved economic condition of the village the development of service centres is very important (Sharma, 1991). These centres also provide important economic, social and physical functions to the surrounding area, such as administrative, education, banking, market facilities and so on, service centres changes the social and economic conditions of the rural areas. The higher level centres perform the wide range of services and provide increasingly more specialised services in the system. So far as the improved economic conditions of the village are concerned the development of the service centres is very important. Budni Block in Distt. Sehore has been analysed in the present study to understand the spatial pattern and the functional hierarchy of service centres. The study has shown that higher the level of services the lower the number of villages providing them and they have the wider range than lower level services.