An Assessment of Quality of Life in Rural Areas of Districts in Odisha: (A Block - Wise Case Study for Khordha and Nabarangpur Districts)
Journal Title: International Journal of Environment, Ecology, Family and Urban Studies (IJEEFUS) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 5
Abstract
The main aim of the paper attempts to maintain a decent quality of life (QOL) to the rural people of the districts in Odisha by providing better facilities and amenities like health, education, sanitation, financial services and power supply. The study seeks to endeavour the quality of life in rural areas of developed district of Khordha and backward district of Nabarangpur. It also focuses to show spatial variation block-wise with the help of qualitative & quantitative assessment comprising of all aspects of quality of life. The assessment is based on primary data collected from questionnaire survey as well as secondary data taken from the district census handbook of Khordha and Nabarangpur, 2011. For proper examining purpose Z – Score technique is used and cartographical representation is done through ArcGIS (10.4) in order to show the level of availability of amenities within the districts. On the basis of above mentioned assessment, quality of life of the different blocks of the districts reveals that blocks namely; Banapur, Bolagad in Khordha district and Jharigan, Kosagumuda in Nabarangpur district indicate the region of high level of quality of life. About sixty percent and fifty percent of the blocks in Khordha and Nabarangpur districts come under medium category of quality of life respectively.
Authors and Affiliations
Deepak Kumar Swain, Santosh Kumar
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