International Journal of Contemporary Research in Multidisciplinary

Abstract:

Traditional village society has undergone changes in their socio-economic status with the progress of scientific and technological development, adoption of new administrative policy by the Government.  Location of a village is also a prime criterion for   temporal changes in a village society. My study area Goalpara village is located in Bolpur Sriniketan Tehsil of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India. The location code of Goalpara village is 317786. It is situated 4.9km away from sub-district headquarter Sriniketan and 30km away from district headquarter Suri.  Goalpara village is under the Ruppur gram panchayat. The total geographical area of village is 145.45 hectares. Bolpur is nearest town to Goalpara. The objective of the study is to study the rapid changing (GIS based) status of the of socio-economic condition of Goalpara village in a decade (2001-2011).  The study is based on primary and secondary data. The maps are drawn by using GIS software. In 2001 there was 84 households and 465 population of the village whereas in 2011 these increases to 441 households and 2,044 populations. Average Sex Ratio of Goalpara village was 1030 in 2001 but now in 2011 it is 1048.Goalpara village has higher literacy rate compared to West Bengal. In 2011, literacy rate of Goalpara village is 77.64%   which was 52.63%. The occupation of the villagers also changes depending on spreading urbanization of the adjacent town Bolpur and the recent development of business and trade In Goalpara village out of total population, 844 were engaged in work activities. 73.22 % of workers describe their work as Main Work while 26.78 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Positive socio-economic changes are found in the study area in a decade.

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Development, Urbanization, Literacy rate, Socio- economic changes, Livelihood

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