Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Geographical Analysis of ShirurTahsil's Literacy, Pune District, MS

Dr. Ratnaprabha Santosh Jadhav

Abstract :

<p> Literacy is one of the demographic characteristics which determines the rate of fertility, size of family, attitude about the </p> <div>female child, level of human resource development, socio–economic condition etc. It is the one of the determinants of </div> <div>eradicating poverty reduction, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development. </div> <div>By taking into consideration the importance of literacy and its characteristics, an attempt has been made to analyze the circle–wise effective </div> <div>literacy,sex–wise literacy and literacy pattern in Shirur Tahsil of Pune District.The circle has been taken as a unit for analysis.For the detail analysis </div> <div>of literacy, 117 villages and 6 circles of this tahsil have been studiedby applying the 1991, 2001 and 2011census data from Town and Village </div> <div>Directory of Pune District. MS–Excel was applied to process and represent the data. ArcGIS was employed to prepare the base map and thematic </div> <div>maps of the study area.</div> <div>The study has observed that in Shirurtahsil, the effective literacy was recorded only 68.15 percent in 1991and it reached upto 82.37 percent in 2011. </div> <div>It showed 26 percent remarkable positive growth during the last two decades due to the development of educational facilities, transportation, </div> <div>agricultural and economic development etc</div>

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Dr. Ratnaprabha Santosh Jadhav Geographical Analysis of ShirurTahsil’s Literacy, Pune District, MS Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 4, Issue: 4 April 2015

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