SPATIAL ECONOMIC

ANALYSIS

Mahesana District Satlasana, Kheralu, Vadnagar

P U R A Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas

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P U R A – Provision of Urban-Amenities in Rural Areas

PURA

A Rural Development Program

Announced by The President on the eve of 54th Republic day of India

Aims at providing amenities similar to urban areas to the rural people

Cluster based approach to achieve uniform development for rural

PURA is to be implemented in 4,130 rural clusters across the country in the next five years

Identification of village clusters with growth potential

Creating following types of connectivity within them:

Road, Transport and Power

Electronic (IT, Telecom)

Knowledge( Educational Training Institutes)

Market Connectivity ( Economic Potential)

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Introduction

Mehsana district is situated in the northern part of Gujarat and district he

adquarter is Mehsana. Mehsana district is situated between latitudes 230 00’ to 240 09’ North and longitudes 720 05’ to 720 95’ East. Mehsana district has nine talukas, having 593 villages and as per 2001 census total population is 648251 souls. The average rainfall of last ten years is around 618 mm.

Main rivers of the district are Sabarmati, Rupen, Puspavati, Khari, etc which flow across from NE to SW. Sabarmati river meets Gulf of Khambhat whereas all other rivers disappears into little Rann of Kutch. Geologically, 85 % of the area comprises of alluvial formation in the form of alternate bands of sand and clay. Sandy formations act as groundwater bearing aquifers. Northern part of the district consists of country rock as charnokites, calc-granites and calc-gneisses formation. Remaining part of the district [is formed of Alluvium. Alluvial formation, consist of sand, gravel, clay, pebbles and kankars.

Industries in Mehasana are more concenterated in the southern part of the district. In the Northern region only Kheralu has the industrial estate of 13.89 hectares.

Industrial Schools are also scarce in this region to train and create a local skill base which can elevate income.

In nutshell this region especially Kheralu has the higher economic as well as investment potential.

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Mehsana District -Studied Talukas

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Industrial Schools

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Economic and Investment Potential

Mahesana- Palanpur highway located within the 50 km of Dedicated Frieght Corridor.

The Palanpur – Sidhpur – Mehsana is strategically located along the DFC(Dedicated Freight Corridor) which offers direct connectivity to ports and major metrocities.

This region has been identified as Logistics Park by GIDC ( Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation) which is proposed to offer warehousing facilities that can handle variety of commodities and cargo transportation to all ports of the state and network for interstate transport.

Various types industries can evolve and development can be multidimensional.

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Income –Expenditure Ratio is calculated individually for each taluka in order to understand the savings potential in each village, also to identify villages which have relatively low savings with banking and commercial facilities.

Income-Expenditure Ratio & Banking Facilities

In Vadnagar taluka the income and expenditure ratio shows except the villages, Dabu which shows relatively higher ratio, which subsequently results into low savings in income but the village has banking facilities. Other villages, Champa, Shekpur,Sarna, Kahipur, Transvad, Sipor, Navapura shows lower ratios which represents that expenditure is less and the savings is relatively possible, and also the villages has sufficient banking facilities.

Expenditure is more than the income

Expenditure is less than the income, thus savings can be done.

Vadnagar

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Satlasana shows a deficit of banking and commerce facilities in many villages but in contrast it shows higher savings in many villages and lower expenditure. So there is an obvious need of more banking facilities in certain villages. Banking facilities follow a constant number in each the taluka’s. Rather it should be distributed according to the investment and economic potential and to the income-expenditure ratio.

Satlasana

Kheralu

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Income-Expenditure Ratio& Banking Facilities

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Literacy rate and Income are independent but to project a potential economic plan it is beneficial to know the literacy rate of the region.

Literacy rate is relatively higher and it can be utilised by forming more number of training schools and village resource centre to support rural amenities and facilities.

KHERALUSATLASANAVADNAGAR

Literacy Rate and Total Income

Overall Literacy Rate of three talukas

Overall Income % of three talukas

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Satlasana

Kheralu

Vadnagar

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Bank FacilitiesCredit SocietyAgricultural Society

Satlasana

Kheralu

Vadnagar

Vadnagar as a town is more developed and urbanised therefore it shows economic facilities equally distributed. The choice is available to the farmers, investors in order to invest, participate in larger scale and for greater profits.

In Satlasana, the number of credit societies is more and also the banking facilities are relatively balanced, but the agriculture societies are in a deficit.

Kheralu talukas is equally divided into commerce, banking and credit societies, thus there is much potential for investors for small scale as well as large scale industries to be developed, moreover Kheralu talukas has its industrial sector also.

Baking Facilities and Other Societies

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Credit Societies

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Agriculture Credit Societies

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LegendTotal Work Population

0 - 451

452 - 1145

1146 - 2658

2659 - 6479

Total Work Force Population

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VILLAGEDISTANCE FROM MAJOR TOWN

0-10

10-20

20-30

30-40

40-50

LegendTALUKA BOUNDARY

VILLAGETOTAL INCOME

0.000000 - 487.000000

487.000001 - 1308.000000

1308.000001 - 2479.000000

2479.000001 - 4238.000000

4238.000001 - 8753.000000

8753.000001 - 71940.000000

Dependency of Income to distance from major towns

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