Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 396–408
Nirmalya DAS1
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography Panskura Banamali College, Panskura, Purba Medinipur, WB, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Study of market centres as well as market economic functions in regional planning and development has been found very important in the assessment of the pattern of development of any region. This has attracted attention of the planners all over the world. The market related functions or activities with the level of concentration of services and facilities will help identification the development status of the region. This study attempts to examine the existing pattern of market economic development vis-à-vis development potential in different blocks of Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. It has been observed that the functional and spatial organizations are interrelated phenomena which influence the economic and social life of the people. Through a systematic study spatial relationships among the existing market activities are observed and it has been noticed that there is a definite pattern of dispersal or concentration of activities in space. On the basis of the above understanding study has been conducted on the potential services of markets and related economic functions of Purba Medinipur district as an areal unit.
Author Keywords: Market centre, economic development, spatial relationship, potential services.
Nirmalya DAS1
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography Panskura Banamali College, Panskura, Purba Medinipur, WB, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Study of market centres as well as market economic functions in regional planning and development has been found very important in the assessment of the pattern of development of any region. This has attracted attention of the planners all over the world. The market related functions or activities with the level of concentration of services and facilities will help identification the development status of the region. This study attempts to examine the existing pattern of market economic development vis-à-vis development potential in different blocks of Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. It has been observed that the functional and spatial organizations are interrelated phenomena which influence the economic and social life of the people. Through a systematic study spatial relationships among the existing market activities are observed and it has been noticed that there is a definite pattern of dispersal or concentration of activities in space. On the basis of the above understanding study has been conducted on the potential services of markets and related economic functions of Purba Medinipur district as an areal unit.
Author Keywords: Market centre, economic development, spatial relationship, potential services.
How to Cite this Article
Nirmalya DAS, “MARKET CENTRES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PATTERN OF PURBA MEDINIPUR IN WEST BENGAL,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 396–408, June 2015.
