Social Development In Kerala

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Kerala’s per capita income is very low comparing to many of developed countries but Kerala model of development shows that state’s achievements in improving material conditions of living and indicators of social development are comparable with these countries (Parayil 1996:944). As part of this development pattern in the last quarter of the twentieth century, society has achieved health and demographic transition. Kerala has an exceptional literacy rate among its people, for both males and females and in both rural and urban areas (Savu and Dimitriu 2012). Along with this outstanding literacy rate, the political and social awareness compounded which is evident in the readership of newspapers. Families in Kerala rarely have over 2 children and …show more content…

It shows the speed of urbanisation process in Kerala after the economic reform. From 1951 to 1981 (30 years) the increase of urban population in Kerala was 29, 45,443 and from 2001 to 2011 the increased urban population is 76, 65,246. Along with the increased urban population the urban places are congested and a huge amount of waste is produced in cities. Governments are failed to control the overproduction of waste and it has become very difficult to dispose eco-friendly. The rapid growth of urban population had led to rapid increase of waste production which had serious socio-economic and environmental impacts (Karadimas, Loumos and Orsoni 2006). Rapid population growth in urban areas will create number of issues which may very difficult to manage by the governments. In the past one decade the urban population became double in Kerala and the number of towns is increased to 3 times. This indicates that the over population in urban places of Kerala and uncontrolled urbanisation process. As a result of these two issues a huge amount of waste produced in the different parts of the urban sites. This increased generation of waste put the Kerala development in crisis. Development is the visible component of urbanisation and this component of urbanisation itself in trouble due to the unscientific and uncontrolled …show more content…

In the present scenario number of hotels, restaurants and other food centres are launched different parts of the state, and people are totally dependent on these hubs for their food which increased the wastage of food. Rest of the food is usually thrown away. Earlier, people used to preserve left-over food and the wasted food was given to domestic animals in the

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