A. Kumar, D. Sharma, S. Prakash, R. S. Yadava, Branislav Kendra
{"title":"Spatial distribution of public health care facilities in rural areas of Nalanda district, Bihar","authors":"A. Kumar, D. Sharma, S. Prakash, R. S. Yadava, Branislav Kendra","doi":"10.48008/NGJI.1756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48008/NGJI.1756","url":null,"abstract":"At this critical juncture of time when the whole world is facing a health care emergency due to the occurrence of (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. It becomes necessary to critically evaluate public health care facilities and their availability to common people to tackle the ongoing crisis rationally. In this regard, this paper tries to study the spatial distribution of public health care facilities and their availability in rural areas of Nalanda district. Location quotient, Lorenz curve and Gini's coefficient have been worked out to find unequal concentration, availability and distribution of public health care facilities across the study area. To show the concentration and distribution of health care facilities over space maps have been drawn on ArcGIS. MS Excel and Word have been used for showing the availability of health care facilities through graphical representation and for tabulation purposes. This paper concludes that community development blocks surrounding district headquarter have a higher concentration and larger availability of rural public health care facilities in comparison to peripheral community development blocks of the study area.","PeriodicalId":160152,"journal":{"name":"National Geographical Journal of India","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115488582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of Changing Land Use/Land Cover of Jammu and Srinagar Cities (1981- 2011)","authors":"S. Singh, Tajinder Kaur, Sarvjeet Singh","doi":"10.48008/NGJI.1753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48008/NGJI.1753","url":null,"abstract":"The land use/ land cover changes, as the dynamic forces of global environmental change, are central to the sustainable development debate. These changes have an impact on a wide range of environmental and landscape attributes including the quality of water, land and air resources, ecosystem processes and function of settlements and the climate system itself through greenhouse gas influxes and surface effects. The land use/ land cover pattern of a region is an outcome of natural and socio-economic factors and their utilization by the man in time and space. An attempt has been made in this paper to compare the changing land use/ land cover (LU/LC) of Jammu and Srinagar cities between 1981 and 2011. The study was conducted with a vision to detect the land consumption rate/ urban expansion and the changes that have taken place predominantly in their built-up land, to predict probable changes that might take place in the next thirty years using both Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing data.","PeriodicalId":160152,"journal":{"name":"National Geographical Journal of India","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130718542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in Occupational Structure of Population in Ballia district: AGeographical study","authors":"K. Verma, V. Rai","doi":"10.48008/ngji.1736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48008/ngji.1736","url":null,"abstract":"All the economic activities for livelihood is called occupation. The people who are involved in various economic activities form the occupational structure of any region. Occupation is an important activity of any population that affects the social, economic, cultural, and demographic characteristics of a region. The proportion of the economically active population in various occupations indicates the economic profile of various groups of the society of that region. This occupational structure varies temporally and spatially which defines the level of development of society and quality of life. The present study is based on Ballia District, lying in the fertile confluence zone of the Ganga and the Ghaghara river. Administratively the district is divided into 17 blocks which are taken as study units. The research aims to compare the working population, occupational structure and its spatial change existing in the district from the period of 2001 to 2011. Data for working population, main and marginal workers along with different occupations are obtained from District Census Handbook of Ballia. Statistical techniques and choropleth maps are used for the representation of occupational structure in the district and consequent changes in the last decade. This comparative analysis will help highlight the spatial variation in different occupations in the study area. This paper deals to analyse the spatial distribution of the working population and change in the occupational structure of Ballia district. The proportion of cultivators and agricultural labourers has decreased from 28.67% to 19.90% and 43.26% to 37.64% level in 2001 to 2011 respectively, while the proportion of household industry workers and other workers have increased from 5.40% to 7.09% and 24.28% to 35.17% level in 2001 to 2011 respectively in Ballia district.","PeriodicalId":160152,"journal":{"name":"National Geographical Journal of India","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122296379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}