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The present chapter has tried to examine the inequalities prevalent in different socioeconomic infrastructures of regional development. In other words, regional disparities in infrastructural distribution in Ranibandh CD block of Bankura, West Bengal, have been investigated through some statistical tools. In execution of the key objective, access to education, medical, and transport communication has been taken into consideration. Moreover, some basic but indispensable services such as ATM, public distribution system (PDS), regular market, weekly haat, and electricity are also examined in this backdrop. A diversified outcome that supports the existence of regional maldistribution of public infrastructures has been revealed from the discussion. It is for sure that the extensive study consisting of statistical results carried out in the present chapter will certainly help the researchers as well as policy formulators in future.
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Karmakar, P., Kastha, S., Sarkar, P., Chakraborty, M. (2022). An Assessment of Intra-Regional Infrastructural Inequality of Ranibandh Block, Bankura, West Bengal, India. In: Hassan, M.I., Sen Roy, S., Chatterjee, U., Chakraborty, S., Singh, U. (eds) Social Morphology, Human Welfare, and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96760-4_11
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