COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN - Puri District

Comprehensive Development Plan – PKDA 20315.3 Socio-Economic PerspectiveThis section will try to explore the existing socio-economic fabric of the region in the form of sex ratio,workforce participation, literacy status, backward caste status etc. Basically through charts, tabulationand mapping existing socio economic scenario and trends has been understood to plan efficiently andaccordingly.5.3.1 Work force participation:The workforce participation has been analyzed in the heads of main workers distribution, marginalworkers distribution and total workers distribution. The analysis has been done at the block level in thewhole region.Fig 5.3: Main workforce participation: PKDALet us first look at themain workersdistribution in the studyarea. The analysis in thechart below clearlyindicates that mainworkers share ismaximum in the townarea where as it is lessthe rural tracts as mostof the people thereinvolved in agricultureand allied activities. Thegrowth pattern alsoshows that % of mainworkers in the city area has increased in the last decade where as it has decreased in most of the ruralparts of the study region.Table 5.4: Main workers Distribution: PKDASr.No.Spatial unitPopulation1991Mainworkers1991Population2001Mainworker2001WFPR %1991WFPR%20011 Puri Town (M) 125199 34043 157837 44636 27.19 28.282 Puri Master 10874 2657 14880 4078 24.43 27.41Plan3 Block A 14523 4011 17238 4350 27.62 25.234 Konark 12683 3338 16979 4871 26.32 28.695 Block B 7863 2254 6872 1764 28.67 25.676 Proposed SIZ 69055 19071 75244 19420 27.62 25.81areaPKDA Total 240197 65374 289050 79119 27.22 27.37Source: Census data, CEPT AnalysisCEPT, Ahmedabad 94