Socio-economic status of selected villages of Muzaffarpur district of Bihar under Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav

Socio-economic status of villages

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav (MGMG) programme is n endeavour towards speedy development of the selected backward villages.  For this very purpose five villages were selected from Marwan community development block of Muzaffarpur district of Bihar.  Socioeconomic indicators viz.,  total area, total population, population density, sex ratio, SC and ST population, total literacy percent, male and female literacy percent, and gender gap in literacy were compared among the villages under study. The socio-economic data were taken from Census of India (Census, 2011). In terms of land resources, Jiyan Khurd village has got highest geographical area (450 ha), while the lowest (63 ha) was in Mohamadpur Aima village. The people of the selected villages are mainly inhabitants of the rural area with better sex ratio. Overall level of literacy is low in the study villages, and male literacy is more than the female literacy. It was observed that the village having high male literacy had adverse sex ratio. Female literacy increased with increase in total literacy although male literacy was more than female literacy. There is socioeconomic inequality which is indicated by less representation of women and scheduled caste group as head of farm families. Since literacy is mother of sustainable equitable socioeconomic development, the present study emphasises that it is imperative to implement different government programmes efficiently in order to bring the literacy of people of the selected as well as adjoining villages to a respectable level.