Geo-Eye

Abstract

Literacy rate is one of the important demographic elements, which is a good measure of human progress towards modernization. Literacy is considered as an index of socio-economic and cultural development of the society. Indian Literacy is characterized with sharp differences in between the male and female, rural and urban areas and various population subgroups. In this paper aims to study the inter taluk disparities in literacy of Bidar District. The present study is based on Secondary source data; it has been collected from District Census Hand Book of Bidar District. The comparisons are summarized here for two period’s i.e. 2001 and 2011. The collected information has been compiled and put in the form of maps, graphs and tables for further analysis. Maps are prepared using GIS software techniques. Data is analyzed through simple quantitative techniques like percentage. It has been observed that, in all taluks of bidar district experiences greater regional disparities in the literacy. We found that literacy rate in study area was 60.9 % in 2001 which is increased to 70.51% in 2011. And also found that the urban literacy is significantly greater than the rural literacy which is coexisting to the wider gender disparities from the rural to the urban population.

Keywords: Disparities; SocioEconomic development; GIS