%0 Journal Article
%T Analysis of Micro Level Disparities in Urban Facility-Utility Services: A Study on Barasat City, West Bengal, India
%A Suman PAUL
%J JURA : Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis
%D 2012
%I University of Bucharest
%X The regional disparity is a challenging issue to the urban planners, policy makers, academicians, bureaucrats and technocrats in the developing countries. In India, wide range of socio-economic disparities are commonly evident even in Class-I cities. Such an undesirable phenomena reflects on the spatial variation of quality of life, level of living as well as well-being and welfare of the inhabitants. Moreover, it is against the constitutional law of equity and social justice. The present study is based on the empirical observation focused on ward-wise variation of availability of and accessibility to socio-economic and utility services in Barasat city of West Bengal. On the basis of ¡®Cronbach¡¯s Alpha¡¯ and ¡®Principal Component Analysis¡¯, entire set of data have been arranged into six factors of which first three factors have been considered to examine the dimension of socio-economic disparities and level of development in the city.
%K disparity
%K utility services
%K Cronbach¡¯s Alpha
%K principal component analysis
%U http://www.jurareview.ro/2012_4_2/p_173_188_2012.pdf