AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON THE CHANGING FUNCTIONAL ECONOMIC BASE OF THE CLASS ONE CITIES IN INDIA
Keywords:
Class one cities in India, Economic base, Functional classification, Triangular method, Rafiullah’s method.Abstract
Cities are growing with a rapid pace. These are centres of various types of activities. As a result there is large scale concentration of population either by natural increase or by migration. This leads to various socio-economic-infrastructural problems. To understand the various dimensions of these problems to make city smart it is required to understand the functional economic base of these cities. Functional economic base of cities indicates what are the main economic activities carried out in the cities and what type of people are residing in these cities. These economic base also changes with the changing time.
This research paper makes an serious attempt to understand the changing functional economic base of Indian cities using census of India data. The census of India has classified the population of each city into different industrial classes. At first level important functions of Indian cities are identified using Rafiullah’s method of multifunction combinations. Then Asok Mitra’s triangular method of functional classification is used to identify important functions in which the city specialises. An attempt has been also made to trace out the changes in the specialisation of function of the cities with time. Maps are prepared using open source GIS software QGIS.
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