Spatial Pattern of Rural Industrial Development in Chandauli District, Uttar Pradesh-A Geographical Analysis (original) (raw)

In rural space, industrialization acts as a supporting sector which minimizes pressure upon agriculture and promotes economy of rural mass. Each and every space is unique in terms of its own historical, physical and socio-cultural background, which in turn influence the economic personality of a region. Keeping this view in mind, in present paper, an attempt has been made to generate a spatial database (SD) to measure the level of industrial development and to propose potential sectors for the development of rural industry in Chandauli district. The study area has agriculture based economy and not so well-developed industrial sector but there is enough scope for the development of industries in near future specially form the point of view of agro-based, Coal, livestock industries etc. For present study, ten indices are selected under two broad categories i.e., Direct and Supportive indicators. Finally, the combined raking values are divided by number of chosen indices and composite index values for level of industrial development are computed. The output results are stored as database and represented as map layout with attribute table in GIS software domain. INTRODUCTION Rural industries have a major aspect in Indian economy due to scarcity of capital; increasing unemployment; regional imbalances and disparities; inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth; and over-utilization and or under-utilization of rural resources (Kumari and Devadas, 2014). Although agriculture and allied sectors with its almost 65-70 percentages share of the workforce are considered as the mainstay of the Indian economy with their contribution of about 22 per cent to GDP but it also supports industrial activities by generating important source of raw material as well as demand for many industrial products, such as fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural implements etc. In rural economic space, industrialization acts as a supporting sector to minimize the pressure upon agriculture and it helps to promote economy of local people. Some of the common features which adversely affected rural economy of India and ultimately resulted into regional disparity are viz. a large share of primary workers, high man– land ratio, concentrated unskilled labours, unemployment, under employment, low productivity, limited utilization and less mobility of resources, less job opportunity for young folk at local level, emigration, poor infrastructure, low capital expenditure etc. In post independence phase, Government of India took several initiatives to promote rural entrepreneurship like