Intra-Regional Disparities in Hadauti Region - A Geographical Analysis

Development has been a multi-faced process by which every nation tries to improve the economic, political, and social well-being of its people and it has spatio-temporal dimension. Inter-regional disparity has been an integral feature of the history of India's socio-economic development.The Regional approach plays a vital role in the analysis of regional disparities.The problem of regional disparities in the levels of economic development is a universal truth. Both developed and under-developed economies have witnessed this problem of regional disparities in the path of their economic progressbut its adverse impact has been felt more in the latter. This phenomenon is a natural outcome of the development process itself, wherein certain regions develop faster than others due to a number of factors.Reduction in disparities is also crucial to accelerate the growth of economy as a whole.The term 'region', in general, has been used to mean a geographicalarea or space.An attempt has also been made to compare the levels of socio-economic development among various blocks of Hadauti region with the help of variation and composite index methods.The results show that wide disparities in the level of socioeconomic development exist among different blocks.The study suggests that low developed blocks require improvement in most of the indicators for enhancing their levels of overall socio-economic development