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| Article Name : | | | SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN LEVEL OF URBANISATION IN AHMEDNAGAR DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA STATE | | Author Name : | | | THOMBARE PANDURANG YADAVRAO AND ADAVITOT S.C. | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ROR-382 | | Article : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | At the demographic point of view level of urbanization refers simply the proportion of urban population to total population. This paper endeavors to illuminate the tahsil wise level of urbanization in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra state. Ahmednagar District census Handbook, 2001 is the main source of secondary database. There are fourteen tahsil in Ahmednagar district. Out of them nine tahsil namely Ahmednagar, Shrirampur, Sangamner, Kopargaon, Rahuri, Rahata, Jamkhed, Pathardi and Shrigonda characterized urban in nature with 11 statutory towns and 07 census towns. Remaining five tahsil are Akole, Nevasa, Shevgaon, Karjat and Parmer characterized rural in character. Tahsil is considering as an urban unit for present study. Multi-indicator method has been employed for measuring level of urbanization, which is devised by Verma, S. S. (1979) and Amitabh Kundu (1980). Tahsil wise variations in urbanization of Ahmednagar district studied with the help of nine indicators namely: proportion of urban population, urban to rural population, urban growth rate, and average size of urban centre, average connectivity, accessibility and urban concentration. Low, medium and high urbanized tahsil have been categorized on the basis of composite score. Four tahsil, namely, Jamkhed, Rahata, Shrigonda and Pathardi are low urbanized. Other four tahsil are Shrirampur, Kopargaon, Sangamner and Rahuri indicates medium urbanized and only Ahmednagar tahsil, which is a headquarter of district indicate high urbanized tahsil. At present, moment Ahmednagar district is amongst the districts in Maharashtra state indicates low level of urbanization. Urbanization is a long term and spatio- temporal variation process due to variations in availability and utilization of resource base not only physical but also socio-cultural in character. | | Keywords : | | - Spatial variations, Urbanization, Urban accretion, Spatial organization.
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