Accessibility of Rural Roads in Jaipur District

By : Richa Singh , Sarina Kalia , K.K. Mishra

Page No: 121-131

Abstract: Rural roads are essential to rural life as it’s provides access to the essential and higher order services. Ease of reach to these roads thus forms the first and foremost criteria of development of the region. This ease of reach is often measured in terms of level of accessibility of the rural habitation to the nearest market centres. The following paper measures the physical proximity of habitations to the market centres by creating buffer zones of 5 kms and 10 kms using Arc GIS 9.3. The research has taken into consideration a decadal period ranging from 2003 to 2013 in all the 13 tehsils of Jaipur district where rural roads connectivity reached to 100 percent under PMGSY phase I. The resultant maps depicted that maximum number of habitations are in the range of 5 to 10 kms from the nearest market centres in 2013 in all the tehsils of Jaipur district.

Another two important variables of accessibility measurement namely travel speed and travel time is also computed to see the actual change bought by rural roads in terms of both speed and time. The results showed a positive impact of PMGSY roads in providing improved accessibility in rural areas in terms of increase speed decreased time in reaching the market areas and other facilities.

Authors :
Richa Singh
Research Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Sarina Kalia
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

K.K. Mishra
Executive Engineer, PMGSY Cell, PWD, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2021.41.01.8