REGIONAL PLANNING IN LATUR DISTRICT

Book excerpt: An important role of service centers in rural development especially in economic and social life of the people in countries like India. Service centres provide goods and services to the surrounding region. They are the nodes in the general fabric of settlements through which overall development takes place.Service centres have central locations where the social gatherings take place. They are an outlet for various social functions. They are also centers of communication, diffusion and innovations. They are also providing ground for governmental, private specialized agencies to establish the new ideas, notion, and policies, for the development.In the present work an attempt has been made to study of service centres in Latur district. The entire work is related to the study distributional pattern and influence service area of service centres. It also includes spatial distribution of service centres in relation to physical, social and economic factors of the region.