Bulletin of Geography. Socio–economic Series / No. 36 (2017): 33–60 BULLETIN OF GEOGRAPHY. SOCIO–ECONOMIC SERIES DE journal homepages: http://www.bulletinofgeography.umk.pl/ http://wydawnictwoumk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/BGSS/index http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bog ISSN 1732–4254 quarterly G Development of Basic Infrastructure: An Analysis of South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal, India Emon BagchiCDFMR Magrahat College in West Bengal, Department of Geography, Magrahat, South 24 Parganas- 743355, West Bengal, India; phone: +91-9830226483; e-mail:
[email protected] How to cite: Bagchi, E., 2017: Development of Basic Infrastructure: An Analysis of South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal, India. In: Cho- dkowska-Miszczuk, J. and Szymańska, D. editors, Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, No. 36, Toruń: Nicolaus Coperni- cus University, pp. 33–60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0013 Abstract. Infrastructure provides the fundamental basis for socio-economic de- Article details: velopment of any country. It acts as the backbone of an economy. Regional dis- Received: 15 April 2015 parities in infrastructural development naturally result in uneven development. Revised: 27 September 2016 Infrastructural development has greater significance in less developed areas due to Accepted: 01 February 2017 their various inherent deficiencies and imbalances. With regard to this, status of the basic sectors of the infrastructure of South 24 Parganas district of West Ben- gal, India has been discussed in this article. This is a less developed area. Com- Key words: parative analysis on infrastructural achievements at sub-district level has also been infrastructure, made. The study not only points towards the lack of uniform infrastructural de- development, velopment over the entire region, but also towards a tendency for concentration connectivity, of such growth process in those areas of the district which lie in close proximity electrification, to the metropolis of Kolkata.