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Geographical Analysis of ShirurTahsil's Literacy, Pune District, MS
Dr. Ratnaprabha Santosh Jadhav
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<p><p>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Literacy is one of the demographic characteristics which determines the rate of fertility, size of family, attitude about the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div&gt;female child, level of human resource development, socio&amp;ndash;economic condition etc. It is the one of the determinants of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;eradicating poverty reduction, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;By taking into consideration the importance of literacy and its characteristics, an attempt has been made to analyze the circle&amp;ndash;wise effective&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;literacy,sex&amp;ndash;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&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;of literacy, 117 villages and 6 circles of this tahsil have been studiedby applying the 1991, 2001 and 2011census data from Town and Village&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Directory of Pune District. MS&amp;ndash;Excel was applied to process and represent the data. ArcGIS was employed to prepare the base map and thematic&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;maps of the study area.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;It showed 26 percent remarkable positive growth during the last two decades due to the development of educational facilities, transportation,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;agricultural and economic development etc&lt;/div&gt;</p></p>
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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
